&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Perkins_(DD-877)_underway_following_her_FRAM_II_modernization,_circa_the_mid-1960s_(NH_99522).jpg) Perkins underway following her FRAM II modernization, c. mid-1960s.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Perkins |
| Namesake | George H. Perkins |
| Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down | 19 June 1944 |
| Launched | 7 December 1944 |
| Commissioned | 4 April 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 15 January 1973 |
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| Stricken | 15 January 1973 |
| Fate | Transferred to Argentina, 15 January 1973 |
 Argentina | |
| Name | ARA Comodoro Py |
| Acquired | 15 January 1973 |
| Stricken | 1984 |
| Identification | D 27 |
| Fate | Sunk as a target, 15 June 1987 |
| Class overview | |
| Preceded by | Seguí class |
| Succeeded by | Hércules class |
| 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 Perkins (DD/DDR-877) was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was the third Navy ship named for Commodore George H. Perkins USN (1835–1899).
Perkins was laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 19 June 1944, launched on 7 December 1944 by Mrs. Larz Anderson (Isabel Weld Perkins) and commissioned on 4 April 1945.