page_title: USS Robert A. Owens (DD-827)
section_title: 1950–1959
hierarchical_section_title: USS Robert A. Owens (DD-827) / Service history / 1950–1959
caption_attribution_description: The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Robert A. Owens (DDE-827) underway.
context_page_description: USS Robert A. Owens was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, in service from 1949 to 1982. She was then transferred to Turkey through the Security Assistance Program and served as TCG Alcitepe. The destroyer was finally decommissioned in 1999 and scrapped.
context_section_description: Following shakedown in February 1950, Robert A. Owens, one of the first hunter-killer destroyers so designated, was reclassified DDE-827 on 4 March 1950. She operated in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean (during which time she sank U-2513 west of Key West, Florida during rocket tests on 7 October 1951) and in late 1952 when she deployed to the Mediterranean. From that time into the 1960s, she operated with the 6th Fleet for six months out of every eighteen. During the remaining twelve months, she conducted anti-submarine patrols off the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean. In the fall of 1957 she added the North Sea to her operational area as she joined in NATO exercises.
caption: Robert A. Owens in 1957.
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