&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:USS_Meredith_(DD-890)_underway_in_the_Mediterranean_Sea,_29_June_1959_(USN_1044279).jpg) USS Meredith
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Meredith |
| Namesake | Jonathan Meredith |
| Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down | 27 January 1945 |
| Launched | 28 June 1945 |
| Commissioned | 31 December 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 29 June 1979 |
| Stricken | 7 December 1979 |
| Fate | Transferred to Turkey, 29 June 1979 |
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:TCG_SAVASTEPE_2_(D-348).jpg) TCG Savaştepe
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 Turkey | |
| Name | Savaştepe |
| Namesake | town of Savaştepe |
| Acquired | 29 June 1979 |
| Identification | D 348 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1995 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 2,425 long tons (2,464 t) |
| Length | 391 ft (119 m) |
| Beam | 41 ft (12 m) |
| Draft | 18 ft 6 in (5.64 m) |
| Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
| Complement | 267 |
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USS Meredith (DD-890), a Gearing-class destroyer, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the United States Marine Corps Sergeant Jonathan Meredith, who saved the life of Lieutenant John Trippe of Vixen, during the Barbary Wars. The destroyer was laid down at the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas, on 27 January 1945; launched on 28 June 1945, sponsored by Miss Juliette S. Kopper, great-great-great-grandniece of Sergeant Meredith; and commissioned on 31 December 1945.