&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Fechteler_(DD-870)_underway_in_June_1964.jpg) USS Fechteler in June 1964
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Fechteler |
| Builder | Bethlehem Mariners Harbor, Staten Island |
| Laid down | 12 April 1945 |
| Launched | 19 September 1945 |
| Commissioned | 2 March 1946 |
| Decommissioned | 11 September 1970 |
| Stricken | 11 September 1970 |
| Fate | Scrapped 28 June 1972 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Gearing-class destroyer |
USS Fechteler (DD-870), named for Rear Admiral Augustus Francis Fechteler USN (1857–1921) and/or his son Lieutenant Frank Casper Fechteler (1897-1922), was a Gearing-class destroyer laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island in New York on 12 April 1945, launched on 19 September 1945 by Miss Joan S. Fechteler, granddaughter of Rear Admiral Fechteler and niece of Lieutenant Fechteler, she was also the sponsor of the first USS Fechteler and commissioned on 2 March 1946.
Fechteler operated with the Seventh Fleet in support of United Nations Forces during the Korean War, underwent conversion to a radar picket destroyer from 1 April to 1 December 1953, alternated operations along the west coast and in Hawaiian waters with deployments to the western Pacific with the Seventh Fleet, and participated in Sea Dragon and Market Time operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out naval gunfire support missions during the Vietnam War.
Fechteler was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 11 September 1970 and sold for scrap on 28 June 1972.