USS Orleck

USS Orleck in July 1965.
History
United States
Name	Orleck
Namesake	Joseph Orleck
Builder	Consolidated Steel Corporation
Laid down	28 November 1944
Launched	12 May 1945
Commissioned	15 September 1945
Decommissioned	1 October 1982
Stricken	6 August 1987
Identification	Callsign: NBIG Hull number: DD-886
Honors and awards	4 battle stars (Korea)
Fate	Transferred to Turkey, 1 October 1982
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Turkey
Name	Yücetepe
Namesake	Yücetepe
Acquired	1 October 1982
Identification	Hull number: D 345
Fate	Returned to the USA, 12 August 2000
Status	Museum ship in Jacksonville, Florida
General characteristics
Class and type	Gearing-class destroyer
Displacement	2,616 long tons (2,658 t) standard 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	General Electric geared turbines 4 boilers 2 shafts 60,000 shp (45 MW)
Speed	36.8 knots (68.2 km/h; 42.3 mph)
Range	4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	336
Armament	(as built) 6 × 5"/38 caliber 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 (as preserved, 1962 FRAM I configuration) 4 × 5 in/38 cal guns (127 mm) (in 2 × 2 Mk 38 DP mounts) 1 × ASROC 8-cell launcher 2 × triple Mark 32 torpedo tubes for Mark 46 torpedoes

USS Orleck (DD-886), is a Gearing-class destroyer that was in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1982. In October 1982 she was sold to Turkey and renamed Yücetepe (D 345). After her final decommissioning the Turkish government transferred Yücetepe to the Southeast Texas War Memorial and Heritage Foundation at Orange, Texas, where she was berthed as a museum ship. The Orleck Foundation then decided to move the ship to the Calcasieu River in Lake Charles, Louisiana. On 26 March 2022, she arrived in Jacksonville, FL, where she served as a Naval Museum on the downtown riverfront until 3 April 2023, when she docked to its permanent home at the Shipyards West.