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- Code Number:
- MYNV17P05_11
- Title:
- USS Strong (DD-758), Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer
- Namesake: James H. Strong
Builder: Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco
Laid down: 25 July 1943
Launched: 23 April 1944
Commissioned: 8 March 1945
Decommissioned: 31 October 1973
Struck: 31 October 1973
Motto: Virtute Et Armis
Fate: Sold to Brazil, 31 October 1973
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Name: Rio Grande do Norte (D-37),
Acquired: 31 October 1973
Struck: 1996
Fate: Reportedly sunk in high seas in 1997 off the coast of Durban, South Africa, while she was under tow from Brazil to India to be scrapped - Keywords:
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