USS Orleck (DD-886)
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USS Orleck (DD-886), named for Lieutenant Joseph Orleck USN (1906-1943), commanding officer of USS Nauset (AT-80), killed in action when the ship was sunk by German aircraft in the Gulf of Salerno on 9 September 1943 and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross, was a Gearing class destroyer laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 28 November 1944, launched on 12 May 1945 by Mrs. Joseph Orleck, widow of Lieutenant Orleck and commissioned on 15 September 1945. Orleck operated with the Seventh Fleet in support of United Nations Forces during the Korean War, underwent an extensive Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) overhaul in 1962, served as plane guard for carriers on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, participated in Sea Dragon operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out Naval Gunfire Support missions during the conflict in Vietnam, and assisted in the recovery of the Gemini IV space capsule. USS Orleck was decommissioned on 1 October 1982, transferred to Turkey and renamed Yucetepe and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 6 August 1987. On 12 August 2000 she was transferred to the Southeast Texas War Memorial and Heritage Foundation at Orange in Texas by the Turkish government for use as a memorial/museum.