德拉克講海軍歷史 美國海軍驅逐艦“賈維斯”號 (DD-799) 戰艦指南 350

U.S.S. Jarvis began life as one of the last of the Fletcher class. There would only be five whole numbers assigned to the class after her. She was laid down in June 1943, launched eight months later in February 1944, and commissioned four months after that in June 1944. Her name was inherited from the vaguely class U.S.S. Jarvis DD-393, which had been sunk early in the Guadalcanal campaign. Initially, she took a hit from an aerial torpedo, which caused enough damage that she was trying to head for repairs when she was sunk with all hands the morning after the Battle of Savoy Island by a Japanese air group that thought she was an escaping cruiser from the aforementioned battle. The new Jarvis, DD-799, arrived on the front lines in late summer 1944, but by this stage, ships bearing the flag of the rising sun were few and far between on the high seas, so she had to content herself with mostly fighting the elements and the occasional Japanese shore installation. Sometimes she came across a small coastal vessel as well, which helped liven things up. This activity took up the remaining year or so of hostilities, after which she was used to help land and move troops which were taking part in the occupation of Japan before she returned to the continental United States with a bunch more troops who were being taken home as part of Operation Magic Carpet. Arriving first in San Diego, she worked her way around the US via the Panama Canal to Charleston, where she was placed in reserve in the spring of 1946. However, her slumber was disturbed by the outbreak of the Korean War. Whilst there were a number of newer destroyers either in service or in reserve, a relatively fresh low-mileage Fletcher-class was still a viable combatant in the early 1950s, and so she was brought back into service in early 1951. Initially operating in the Atlantic, filling in the role of other ships which had been drawn into the Pacific before she was called to Korea herself just over a year later. Operating with the 7th Fleet on a variety of missions off the eastern coast, bombarding North Korean positions, blockading the port of Wonsan, and acting as a plane guard for the carriers of Task Force 77. In the autumn of 1953, she swapped out these duties for other operations in the western Pacific for a month before heading home by completing a circumnavigation of the planet via the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, rejoining the Atlantic Fleet, and serving in a primarily anti-submarine warfare role as part of a hunter-killer group, deploying to the Mediterranean during part of this time. Then in 1955, she was reassigned once more to the Pacific Ocean, operating off the U.S. west coast for a few months, before being sent back to the western Pacific again, getting involved in deterrence and rescue missions related to the ongoing conflict between Nationalist and Communist Chinese forces and the early stages of what would turn out to be the Vietnam War. This would last until the end of 1960, when she was recalled and sent back to the east coast where she once more entered reserve, albeit for over a week and a half, after which she was handed over to Spain, the fourth of five Fletcher-class ships to have this fate. She was renamed Alcala-Galliano and extensively refitted with new radar and other electronic systems. Previous transfers of Fletchers had seen their medium and light anti-aircraft guns reduced to three each of the 40mm Bofors and 20mm Oerlikons, whilst the torpedo tubes and depth charge launchers were replaced with a pair of triple Mark 44 anti-submarine warfare torpedo launchers and a pair of hedgehog anti-submarine warfare mortars. She seems to have been further modified either in or for Spanish service beyond these changes, with a number of Spanish sources indicating that at some point she may have lost one of the 5-inch mounts, her light and medium anti-aircraft guns and one of the triple torpedo launchers in exchange for three twin 3-inch anti-aircraft guns. The ship, in any case, whatever her fit out, remained in Spanish naval service until she was decommissioned and sold for scrap at the end of 1988, becoming one of the longest-serving Fletcher-class destroyers in naval history.