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|align="center" colspan="2"|[[Dd852h300w.jpg|300px|USS Leonard F. Mason]] <br/>U.S.S. Leonard F. Mason (DD-852), May 1974, 32nd Street Naval Station, San Diego, California. FRAM II configuration. |
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Revision as of 19:24, 28 November 2005
| USS Leonard F. Mason U.S.S. Leonard F. Mason (DD-852), May 1974, 32nd Street Naval Station, San Diego, California. FRAM II configuration. | |
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| Authorized: | |
| Laid down: | 2 May 1945 |
| Launched: | 4 January 1946 |
| Commissioned: | 28 June 1946 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Sold to Taiwan 10 March 1978, becoming Shuei-Yang (DDG 926). Decommissioned 16 February 2000 and sunk to create an artifical reef. |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | |
| Length: | 390 feet, 6 inches |
| Beam: | 41 feet, 1 inch |
| Draft: | 18 feet |
| Propulsion: | 4 boilers, 2 General Electric geared turbines, 2 screws, 65,464 shaft horsepower |
| Speed: | Reported as fastest Destroyer in USN Pacific fleet in the 1970s |
| Range: | 4500 nm @ 20 knots |
| Complement: | 11 officers, 325 crew |
| Armament: | (1973) two 5"/38 twin gun mounts, torpedo launchers, ASROC, CHAFFROC, Chaperral, 50-calibre machine guns |
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USS Leonard F. Mason (DD-852) was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy.
The ship was named after Leonard F. Mason, a Marine Private First Class who gallantly gave his life while in action on the island of Guam during World War II. PFC Mason was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for his bravery during this action.
Mason was the recovery ship that picked up the wayward Gemini 8 capsule that splashed down near Okinawa, instead of the intended Caribbean.
On February 12, 1973, Mason was the final U.S. warship of the Vietnam War to call at the base at Da Nang, Vietnam.
An extensive history of the ship is available from this website: http://www.west.net/~ke6jqp/dd852.htm
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