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HS Sfendoni D85
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Photographer:Douglas Cromby [ View profile ]
Title:Hs Sfendoni D85
Photo Category:Scrapyard Ships
Added:Apr 17, 2010
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Image Resolution:2,448 x 1,584
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Anyone know which ship this is ?
I think she is scrapping in Turkey. The slide is relatively recent.
She is I suspect a USN Fletcher class ship possibly one of those trasnferred to Turkey. May be D340 Istabul or D341 Izmir ?
Any help and suggestions greatly appreciated.
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rgds asnyk
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The second painted out number looks like a 5 and the one before could be a 6 or an 8, although it looks marginally more like an 8. The date of the scrapping in 1997 of SFENDONI is probably the age of the slide too.
Thanks
Douglas.
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According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_destroyer_Nearchos_%28D65%29
D-65 NEARCHOES was scrapped in 1991.
In addition as hads been stated, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_destroyer_Sfendoni_%28D85%29 states that D-85 was scrapped in 1997 at Aliaga, and I would think that this seals it. It must be D-85 SFENDONI.
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When the Nearchos was in German service, her bridge was heavily modified/rebuilt, as were the rest of the German Fletchers.
The bridge on this ship was unmodified, thus eliminating any ex-German Fletcher.
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The Fletcher is a round-bridge model.
This limits the possibilities to:
A/T Kimon D-42 ex-Ringgold ex-Zerstörer-2 Scrapped 1993
A/T Nearchos D-65 ex-Wadsworth ex-Zerstörer-3 Scrapped 1991
A/T Sfendoni D-85 ex-Aulick* Scrapped 1997 in Turkey
Zerstörer-4 D-171 (never renamed) ex-Claxton scrapped 1992
Zerstörer-5 D-179 (never renamed) ex-Dyson scrapped 1993
Both Greece and German used amidships hull numbers. But clearly it's a 2-digit number, which eliminated the German ships.
The last digit appears to be "5," which leaves A/T Nearchos and A/T Sfendoni.
Photos of Zerstörer-3 clearly show that its bridge was converted to an enclosed square-type.
On the other hand, photos of A/T Sfendoni at the end of its service still show the round bridge. It's A/T Sfendoni, without doubt.
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Bram
Sorry Marc didn't see you answer, was busy typing, but NEARCHOS was not a Fletcher type destroyer but a former Charles F Adams class destroyer and the one one the photo is for sure a Fletcher class destroyer.
Bram
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NEARCHOS (D-65) was indeed a Fletcher, the former WADSWORTH (DD-516) which next became Z-3 (Federal German Navy) in 1959 and then NEARCHOS in 1980.
But as you mentioned, the destroyer could also be SFENDONI (85).
The next NEARCHOS (219) was a Charles F. Adams DDG transfered in 1992 and sunk as a target in 2006.
Marc
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Bram
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My guess would be NEARCHOS as the second digit looks like 5 and hers was 65.
Photo was probably taken at Aliaga, Turkey.
Cheers,
Marc
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When did you take the picture?. Turkey's ships Izmir and Istambul were scrapped in 1987
Regards
Ignacio
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