USS Harding (DD-625)

History
United States
Name	Harding
Namesake	Seth Harding
Builder	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down	22 July 1941
Launched	28 June 1942
Commissioned	25 May 1943
Decommissioned	2 November 1945
Reclassified	DMS-28, 15 November 1944
Stricken	16 November 1945
Fate	Sold 16 April 1947 and broken up for scrap
General characteristics
Class and type	Gleaves-class destroyer
Displacement	1,630 tons
Length	348 ft 3 in (106.15 m)
Beam	36 ft 1 in (11.00 m)
Draft	11 ft 10 in (3.61 m)
Propulsion	50,000 shp (37,000 kW) 4 boilers 2 propellers
Speed	37.4 knots (69 km/h)
Range	6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	16 officers, 260 enlisted
Armament	4 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber dual purpose guns (4×1), 6 × 0.50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns, 4 × Bofors 40 mm guns (2×2), 7 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons (7×1), 5 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (5 Mark 15 torpedoes), 6 × depth charge projectors, 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Harding (DD-625) (later DMS-28), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Seth Harding.

Harding was launched on 28 June 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, Washington, sponsored by Mrs. Sherwood A. Taffinder. The ship was commissioned on 25 May 1943.