USS Ingraham (DD-694)

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USS Ingraham
USS Ingraham, 9 March 1944
History
United States
NameUSS Ingraham
NamesakeDuncan Ingraham
BuilderFederal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Laid down4 August 1943
Launched16 January 1944
Commissioned10 March 1944
Decommissioned15 June 1971
Stricken16 July 1971
IdentificationDD-694
FateSold to Greece 16 July 1971
Greece
NameMiaoulis
Namesake
Andreas Vokos Miaoulis
Acquired16 July 1971
Stricken1992
IdentificationD211
FateSunk as target, 9 October 2001
General characteristics
Class and typeAllen M. Sumner-class destroyer
Displacement2,200 tons
Length376 ft 6 in (114.76 m)
Beam40 ft (12 m)
Draft15 ft 8 in (4.78 m)
Propulsion
  • 60,000 shp (45,000 kW);
  • 2 propellers
Speed34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range6,500 nautical miles (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement336
Armament

USS Ingraham (DD-694) was a United States Navy Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, the third ship in U.S. Navy history to be named for Duncan Ingraham. She was in commission from 1944 to 1971. Following her US service, she was sold to the Hellenic Navy and renamed Miaoulis. The ship was sunk as a target in 2001.

Construction and commissioning

Ingraham was

launched on 16 January 1944 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey, sponsored by Mrs. George Ingraham Hutchinson, granddaughter of Duncan Ingraham, the ship's namesake,[1] and commissioned
on 10 March 1944.

Service history

World War II

After

Japanese Home Islands
.

In mid-November 1944, Ingraham commenced screening

antisubmarine duty until 12 December 1944, when she departed for the assault and landings on Mindoro. On 15 December 1944, in company with destroyer Barton, she sank a Japanese cargo ship
off the southwest tip of Mindoro.

After a brief stay, she departed

Hunter's Point, California
, for repairs. She was still in the United States when World War II ended on 15 August 1945.

Postwar and Korean War

After additional repairs, Ingraham operated along the

Mediterranean. She commenced exercises in the Atlantic Ocean
during the summer of 1951, then made another cruise to the Mediterranean during the fall of 1951 and summer of 1952.

Ingraham departed Norfolk 24 April 1953 to escort the aircraft carrier Lake Champlain to Japan via the Mediterranean and Suez Canal. She arrived at Yokosuka, Japan, on 9 June 1953 and later that month joined the aircraft carrier task force providing air support to United Nations forces in Korea during the Korean War. Her accuracy was excellent as she destroyed gun emplacements and supply areas.

Peacetime operations, 1953–1965

Ingraham underway in June 1962.

Following the armistice that ended the Korean War, Ingraham operated on security patrol before returning to Norfolk on 27 October 1953. During 1954 she operated on antisubmarine

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exercises out of Northern Ireland. She resumed training operations following overhaul in June 1955 and steamed on a summer training cruise to the Scandinavian
countries, returning to Norfolk on 6 September 1955.

Ingraham departed Norfolk on 28 July 1956 for duty with the

Suez Canal Crisis
. She returned to Norfolk on 4 December 1956. She returned to Norfolk 4 December to begin a series of training cruises climaxed by a NATO exercise in September and October 1957.

Ingraham returned to Sixth Fleet duty in February 1958 and operated on patrol and exercises in the Mediterranean and the

Lebanon crisis, in which the Sixth Fleet played a major role in the outcome in Lebanon. Ingraham then operated on the United States East Coast until 13 February 1959, when she departed for another tour with the Sixth Fleet, and during which a crisis with the Warsaw Pact over Berlin was averted. Departing the Mediterranean on 30 August 1959, she arrived at Norfolk Naval Shipyard at Portsmouth
, Virginia, on 7 September 1959 and began overhaul.

During 1960, Ingraham engaged in operations out of Mayport, Florida, before embarking on another cruise with the Sixth Fleet, beginning late September 1960. She resumed readiness training out of Mayport in March 1961, before undergoing the extensive eight-month Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) II-overhaul at Portsmouth, Virginia.

Ingraham arrived at her new home port, Newport, Rhode Island, on 23 February 1962, then engaged in fleet operations in the Atlantic and in the Caribbean. In September and October 1962 she was assigned to the recovery area for the Project Mercury flight of "Sigma 7" and under more somber conditions took part in the 1962 blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which ended in the removal of Soviet ballistic missiles from Cuba. She continued operations along the United States East Coast until 1 October 1963, when she sailed for another deployment to the Mediterranean. Regular deployment with the Atlantic Fleet occupied Ingraham's time until 29 September 1965.

Vietnam War

On 29 September 1965, Ingraham departed Newport for the

Western Pacific and service in the Vietnam War, arriving on 31 October 1965 at Yokosuka, Japan. for resupply before operations in the South China Sea. Though acting as a part of the screen for the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga, she also performed fire support missions for ground troops ashore. On 12 November 1965, Ingraham steamed ten miles up the Saigon River in South Vietnam to bombard an enemy supply base, and, on 13 November 1965, shelled a Viet Cong assembly area some 300 miles (480 km)[2]
from the site of her action the previous day.

In early December 1965, Ingraham maintained regular surveillance on a Soviet

Task Force 77 off Vietnam
. Ingraham left Vietnamese waters bound for Newport on 4 February 1966 by way of the Suez Canal.

End of service

Arriving on 8 April 1966 at Newport, Ingraham began a repair and training period. From 14 to 21 June 1966 she participated in

decommissioned on 15 June 1971 and sold to Greece
on 16 July 1971.

Greek Navy service, 1971–1992

For other ships with the same name, see Greek ship Miaoulis.

In Hellenic Navy service, the ship was renamed Miaoulis after a 19th-century Greek naval hero.[4] In Greek service, Miaoulis initially operated an Aérospatiale Alouette III helicopter instead of the DASH drone helicopter used by the US Navy.[5] She was modernized from November 1986, with the ship's variable-depth sonar removed, and an enlarged flight deck and a larger, telescoping hangar fitted to allow an Agusta-Bell AB-212 helicopter to be operated.[6] was active in the Hellenic Navy until 1992, when she was decommissioned and struck from the active roster.[5]

Final disposition

On 9 October 2001, Miaoulis was sunk as a target during a Greek naval exercise.[4]

Honors and awards

Ingraham received the

battle stars
for service in World War II. She earned a fifth battle star for service in the Korean War.

References

Citations and notes

  1. ^ Crestview, Florida, "Joins U. S. Fleet", The Okaloosa News-Journal, Friday 7 March 1941, Volume 27, Number 9, page 3
  2. statute miles; if it is 300 nautical miles
    , the metric conversion is 556 kilometers.
  3. ^ U.S.S. Yorktown information[unreliable source?]
  4. ^ a b Willshaw, Fred. "USS Ingraham (DD-694)". Navsource Naval History. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  5. ^ a b Gardiner & Chumbley 1995, p. 161
  6. ^ Prézelin & Baker III 1990, p. 217

Sources

External links
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