Uss Charles R. Ware (Dd 865)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. USS Charles R. Ware (DD-865), was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant Charles R. Ware USN (1911-1942), who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for heroism in the Battle of Midway. Charles R. Ware was laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island in New York on 1 November 1944, launched on 12 April 1945 by Mrs. Z. Ware and commissioned on 21 July 1945. From her home ports at Norfolk, Virginia, and after December 1950, Newport, Rhode Island, Charles R. Ware operated through 1960 with the Atlantic Fleet. Along with many deployments to the Mediterranean Sea and northern Europe, she carried out training and overhaul necessary. Her first major cruise, between 1 March and 9 April 1946, was to northern waters, where she aided in developing techniques for cold weather operations, crossing the Arctic Circle.