USS Forrest Royal (DD-872) was a United States Navy Gearing-class destroyer constructed following the end of World War II. The ship saw service in the Korean War and the Vietnam War before being sold to Turkey in 1971. The ship was renamed TCG Adatepe and remained in service until being scrapped in 1993.
The Turkish Naval Forces, or Turkish Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces.
Six ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Powhatan or USNS Powhatan, named in honor of Powhatan (1550–1618), an Indian chief in tidewater Virginia; the father of Pocahontas.
USS Mapiro (SS-376), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the mapiro, a fish of the Gobioidea suborder occurring off the West Indies and the Atlantic coasts of Central America and Mexico.
Four ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Gwin for William Gwin.
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS McCalla for Bowman H. McCalla.
USS McCalla (DD-488), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Bowman H. McCalla, who served during the Spanish–American War and would eventually attain the rank of rear admiral.
USS Hugh Purvis (DD-709) was an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1972. She was then transferred to Turkey and served until 1993 as TCG Zafer (D356). The ship was scrapped in 1994.
USS Norris (DD-859) was one of 98 Gearing-class destroyers in the United States Navy during the end of World War II. Norris was active from 9 June 1945 to 4 December 1970. Although built too late to see action during the war, the ship served in the Pacific, Atlantic, Asiatic, and Mediterranean areas.
TCG Muavenet (DM-357) was a destroyer minelayer of the Turkish Navy crippled by two Sea Sparrow missiles fired from the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga during a NATO exercise in Saros Bay, Turkey in 1992, resulting in death and injury among its crew.
TCG Gayret may refer to one of the following Turkish Navy ships:
USS Robert A. Owens (DD/DDK/DDE-827) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, in service from 1949 to 1982. The ship was named for United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient Robert A. Owens. The ship was then transferred to Turkey through the Security Assistance Program (SAP) and served as TCG Alcitepe (D-346). The destroyer was finally decommissioned in 1999 and scrapped.
Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Fiske, in honor of Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske.
USS Gwin (DD-772/DM-33/MMD-33) was a Robert H. Smith-class destroyer minelayer in the United States Navy. She was named for William Gwin.
A naval race had developed in the Aegean after the end of the Balkan Wars, with the Ottoman government ordering several ships, including two dreadnoughts, in Britain. In the event, with the outbreak of World War I, these ships, including further two scout cruisers and four destroyers, were confiscated and pressed into service with the Royal Navy. This disappointed the Ottomans, contributing to their joining the Central Powers in the Great War.
Muavenet-i Milliye or Muâvenet-i Millîye was a destroyer built for the Ottoman Navy prior to World War I. The ship is most notable for sinking the British pre-dreadnought battleship Goliath during the Dardanelles Campaign in World War I.
USS Greenlet (ASR-10) was a Chanticleer-class submarine rescue ship in the United States Navy. Constructed during World War II, the vessel was launched in 1942 and commissioned in 1943. Greenlet initially served at the United States Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii and Midway Atoll before transferring to Guam. During the period spent at Midway and Guam she aided in the training of submarine crews that would take part in the blockade of Imperial Japan. After the war ended, Greenlet transferred to Japan and escorted captured Japanese submarines back to the United States in 1946, spending the next couple of years training submarine crews. During the Korean War, Greenlet re-positioned back to Japan before returning to American waters. In 1958 and 1965, Greenlet took part in salvage operations of United States Navy vessels in Pacific waters. In early 1970, the vessel took part in deep recovery operations of a Grumman C-2 Greyhound aircraft that had crashed off Vietnam, earning the ship a Meritorious Unit Award. In June 1970, the ship was decommissioned, transferred to the Turkish Navy and renamed TCG Akin. Akin remained in service with the Turkish Navy until 17 November 2017
Three ships of the Turkish Navy have borne the name TCG Sultanhisar, after Sultanhisar, a town and a small district of Aydın Province, Turkey:
Two ships of the Turkish Navy have been named TCG Kılıç Ali Paşa:
Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Tourmaline:
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