USS Leary (DD-879)

USS Leary underway in 1972
History
United States
Name	Leary
Namesake	Clarence F. Leary
Builder	Consolidated Steel Corporation
Laid down	11 August 1944
Launched	20 January 1945
Commissioned	7 May 1945
Decommissioned	31 October 1973
In service	23 June 1945
Reclassified	DDR-879, 1949
Identification	Callsign: NBHS Hull number: DD-879
Motto	No Quarter
Fate	Transferred to Spain, 1978
Badge
Spain
Name	Langara
Namesake	Juan de Lángara
Acquired	17 May 1978
Decommissioned	1992
Stricken	1992
Identification	Hull number: D-64
Fate	Scrapped, 1994
General characteristics
Class and type	Gearing-class destroyer Churruca-class destroyer
Displacement	3,460 tons
Length	390 ft 6 in (119.02 m)
Beam	41 ft 1 in (12.52 m)
Draft	18 ft 6 in (5.64 m)
Propulsion	60,000 shp (45,000 kW) Westinghouse turbines; 2 screws
Speed	34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range	6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi)
Complement	367 officers and enlisted
Sensors and processing systems	SQS-23 Sonar System[1] SPS-10 Surface Search Radar SPS-29 Air Search Radar
Armament	As built: 6 × 5-inch (127 mm) guns, 12 × 40 mm AA guns, 11 × 20 mm AA guns, 10 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 6 × K-gun depth charge projectors, 2 × depth charge tracks Post-FRAM: 4 × 5-inch (127 mm) guns, 1 × Mk 112 ASROC launcher 6 × Mk 32 torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried	2 × QH-50C DASH Drone Helicopters
Notes	All specifications are post-FRAM except as noted

USS Leary (DD/DDR-879) (radio call sign: "Home Run"), one of the longest-lasting Gearing-class destroyers, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant Clarence F. Leary USNRF (1894–1918), who lost his life in the line of duty. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.