USS Brownson (DD-868)

3460 ts

119 m

12.5 m

4.4 m

336

36.8 kn

The USS Brownson (DD -868 ), named for Rear Admiral Willard Herbert Brownson ( 1845-1935 ), was a Gearing class destroyer of the United States Navy.

The keel was laid by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Iceland, New York, NY was born on 13 February 1945. Christened and launched from the dock the Brownson on July 7, 1945 Miss Caroline Brownson Hart, granddaughter of Admiral Brownson, put into service, it was on 17 November 1945. The Brownson was in Bath, Maine in a reduced operational status classified, but remained in active service. In October 1946, it was used along the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean, with temporary assignments into the Mediterranean.

Early in 1947, took the ship in Operation High Jump part in the Antartiks.

On November 8, 1950 she collided during a night insert prior Bermuda with the Charles H. Roan, whereby the bow of the Brownson was heavily damaged. The subsequent repairs in Boston lasted until February 1951. USS Brownson was filed on September 30, 1976 decommissioned, stricken from the register of ships of the U.S. Navy and sold on June 10, 1977 on ship dismantling.