USS Perkins ( DD - 877 ) USS " Perkins " ( DD / DDR - 877 ) was a in the United States Navy . She was the third Navy ship named for Commodore George H . Perkins USN ( 1835 – 1899 ) . " Perkins " was laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange , Texas on 19 June 1944 , launched on 7 December 1944 by Mrs . Larz Anderson ( Isabel Weld Perkins ) and commissioned on 4 April 1945 . Service history . 1945 – 1949 . Following shakedown off Cuba , " Perkins " entered the Norfolk Navy Yard for conversion to a radar picket destroyer . In July 1945 she underwent refresher training , rendezvoused with the aircraft carrier on the 20th , and headed for the Pacific . At Pearl Harbor she joined Destroyer Division 52 ( DesDiv 52 ) and on 19 August sailed for the Far East . She entered Tokyo Bay the day of the formal Japanese surrender , on 2 September , and on the 3rd joined Task Force 38 ( TF 38 ) . Operations in the Marshalls , Marianas , and off Japan followed and in April 1946 she returned to Pearl Harbor . On the 28th she arrived at San Diego , California whence she operated for the next year . In May 1947 , she returned to the Far East for three months on the China station , two weeks of which were spent off Chinwangtao , on the Gulf of Po Hai , observing Communist Chinese forces . " Perkins " returned to California in October and in January 1948 sailed to the Marshalls for the atomic bomb test series " Operation Sandstone " . Overhaul followed her return to San Diego in June and on 4 January 1949 she departed the west coast for another tour off the China coast . Arriving at Tsingtao on 7 February , she was redesignated DDR – 877 on the 18th . Scheduled exercises soon began , but , in addition , she was called on to lift foreign residents of Tsingtao to Hong Kong as Communist forces took over the former city in May . In June she battled her first typhoon , and after visiting Singapore in August , she returned to San Diego . 1950 – 1959 . Engaged in training exercises off the west coast and yard overhaul for the next year , " Perkins " , reassigned to DesDiv 11 , sailed west again in mid - August 1950 . She served on SAR station in the central Pacific , returned to the west coast in October , and on 2 February 1951 got underway for the embattled coast of Korea . Between March and September she performed screening and plane guard duties for the carriers of TF 77 and carried out gunfire support and shore bombardment missions with TF 95 . On 25 September " Perkins " arrived at Yokosuka , Japan from the bombline and the next day continued on toward the United States . In June 1952 she returned to Korea . She spent July entirely on the bombline , shifted briefly to TF 77 , then steamed south for duty on the Taiwan Patrol . By 8 September she was back on the bombline . On 15 October , while covering minesweeping operations preparatory to an amphibious feint against Kojo , 35 miles ( 65 km ) north of the battlefront , one of her crew was killed and 17 were wounded by two near misses from Communist shore batteries . Only slightly damaged , she continued her combat activities and for the remainder of her tour alternated gunfire support operations with carrier escort duties . At the end of the year " Perkins " returned to the United States . In July 1953 she completed a six month overhaul and in August she returned to the Far East . There six months she patrolled off the Korean coast and Taiwan Strait and participated in exercises from Japan to the Philippines . After that deployment " Perkins " continued to rotate between duty with the 7th Fleet in the $ 3 and operations with the 1st Fleet off the west coast . In July 1956 she contributed to the information gathering effort of the International Geophysical Year ( IGY ) by " chasing " weather balloon s and in September 1959 helped TF 77 forestall overt hostilities during the Laotian crisis . 1960 – 1973 . In March 1962 she entered the Long Beach Naval Shipyard for Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization ( FRAM ) . Redesignated DD - 877 , on 30 September , she emerged from the Mark II overhaul and conversion in December with a new superstructure configured for QH - 50 DASH . The " new " destroyer spent the next ten months exercising off the west coast and in mid - October 1963 resumed annual deployments to WestPac , her first mission to conduct operations with the carrier in the South China Sea . Continuing to alternate 7th Fleet and 1st Fleet duty tours into 1970 , each of " Perkins " s WestPac deployments returned her to the South China Sea where , off the coast of Vietnam , she served as plane guard for carriers on " Yankee Station " in the Tonkin Gulf , participated in " Sea Dragon " and " Market Time " operations , patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out naval gunfire support missions during the conflict . ARA " Comodoro Py " ( D - 27 ) . " Perkins " was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 15 January 1973 , transferred to Argentina . She was renamed ARA " Comodoro Py " ( D - 27 ) , and served in the Argentine Navy . She was stricken and in 1984 . On 15 June 1987 , " Comodoro Py " was sunk as a target by a torpedo fired from the Argentine Navy . Awards . " Perkins " earned three battle star s during the Korean War .