_underway_in_Narragansett_Bay_on_10_October_1971_(NH_107000).jpg) USS Charles P. Cecil, 1971
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Charles P. Cecil (DD-835) |
| Namesake | Charles P. Cecil |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down | 2 December 1944 |
| Launched | 2 April 1945 |
| Commissioned | 29 June 1945 |
| Reclassified | DDR-835, 18 March 1949 |
| Decommissioned | 1 October 1979 |
| Fate | Sold to Greece, 8 August 1980 |
| History | |
 Greece | |
| Name | Apostolis (D216) |
| Acquired | 8 August 1980 |
| Commissioned | 1980 |
| Stricken | 1993 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, March 2003 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 3,460 long tons (3,516 t) full |
| Length | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
| Beam | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
| Propulsion | Geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
| Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 336 |
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USS Charles P. Cecil (DD/DDR-835) was a Gearing-class destroyer, the only ship of the United States Navy to be named after Rear Admiral Charles P. Cecil. She was launched on 22 April 1945 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. C. P. Cecil; and commissioned on 29 June 1945.