USS Charles H . Roan ( DD - 853 ) USS " Charles H . Roan " ( DD - 853 ) was a " Gearing " - class destroyer of the United States Navy . The ship was named after Charles Howard Roan , a Marine who lost his life in action on the island of Palau . " Roan " was built by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation ' s Fore River Shipyard at Quincy , Massachusetts , launched on 15 March 1946 , and commissioned on 12 September 1946 . From her home port at Newport , Rhode Island , " Charles H . Roan " operated through 1960 on training exercises along the east coast and in the Caribbean . Typifying the manifold missions of the destroyer , she trained with aircraft carrier s , with submarine s , in convoy escort exercises , and in amphibious operations . In addition , she gave service as part of the midshipman training squadron , as engineering school ship for Destroyer Force , Atlantic , and in North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercises . 1950s . On her first overseas deployment , " Charles H . Roan " sailed from Newport 9 February 1948 for a cruise which took her to the Mediterranean and service with the 6th Fleet , then into the Persian Gulf . She returned to Newport 26 June , and took up the training schedule necessary to prepare her for a 1949 Mediterranean tour . In 1950 her armament was extensively altered , and her next lengthy cruise came in summer 1953 , when she carried midshipmen to South American ports . On 2 August 1954 , the " Charles H . Roan " stood down Narragansett with her division on the first leg of a round the world voyage . She sailed on to the western Pacific for 5 months of operations with the 7th Fleet , on patrol in the Taiwan Straits , and in carrier and amphibious exercises off Japan , Okinawa , and the Philippines . The division took departure from Subic Bay , 20 January 1955 , and continued westward to call at Persian Gulf ports , transit the Suez Canal , and visit in the Mediterranean before returning to Newport 14 March . She resumed her training operations until 7 Julv , when she was ordered north to take station as a picket off Iceland and Greenland during the flight of President Dwight D . Eisenhower to the Geneva Summit . " Charles H . Roan ' s " next Mediterranean cruise began with her sailing from Newport 14 September 1956 to join the 6th Fleet . With the eruption of the Suez crisis that fall , she patrolled in the eastern Mediterranean . Since the Suez Canal was now blocked , December found " Charles H . Roan " bound for the Cape of Good Hope , rounding the African continent for 2 months of duty with the Middle East Force . Between 20 and 27 January 1957 , she served as flagship for the Force Commander in a passage up the Shatt - al - Arab to visit Basra , Iraq . Her return passage to Newport found her rounding the Cape of Good Hope once more , and she reached home 3 April , in good time to take part in the International Naval Review in Hampton Roads in June . Late summer saw her crossing the Atlantic once more for visits to Plymouth , England , and Copenhagen , Denmark , while participating in North Atlantic Treaty Organization Operation " Strikeback . " Arriving at Annapolis on 12 July 1958 to take the midshipmen on board , " Charles H . Roan " got underway on what was to be a brief cruise . But plans swiftly changed upon the outbreak of the trouble in the Middle East which led to the landing of Marines by the fleet in Lebanon . First , " Charles H . Roan " proceeded to Norfolk , Virginia , to take on board additional stores and ammunition necessary for a lengthy deployment , then sailed south to escort an amphibious group to training operations designed as preparation for any extension of the Middle Eastern trouble . She proceeded on across the Atlantic , arriving at Naples 14 August to transfer the midshipmen to other ships . Thus released , she sailed on to the coast of Lebanon , where she and " Forrest Royal " ( DD - 872 ) patrolled in support of the forces ashore . Now trouble flared up in the Far East , as the Chinese Communists resumed the bombardment of the Chinese Nationalist - held offshore islands . " Charles H . Roan " and " Forrest Royal " joined the " Essex " ( CVA - 9 ) group , augmenting the screen of two destroyers already accompanying the carrier . The group passed through the Suez Canal on 29 August 1958 , and until 27 September 1958 , she patrolled off Taiwan . Her return passage to Newport took her around the Cape of Good Hope . She arrived home on 18 November 1958 to a welcome in Narragansett Bay . 1960s and 1970s . Adding to her list of historic operations , in the summer of 1958 , " Charles H . Roan " participated in Operation " Inland Sea , " the first passage of a naval force through the Saint Lawrence Seaway into the Great Lakes . She visited many ports and took part in the ceremonies dedicating the Seaway . The 31 March 1960 found her again arriving in the Mediterranean for a cruise which included duty with the key Middle East Force , and visits to many Persian Gulf ports . Returning to Newport in October , " Charles H . Roan " operated off the east coast for the remainder of the year . " Roan " was decommissioned in 1973 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 21 September 1973 . Transfer to Turkish navy . " Roan " was then transferred to the Turkish government , where she was known as the TCG " Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak " ( D 351 ) in the Turkish Navy . She took part in Operation Atilla during Cyprus conflict in 1974 . At 21 July 1974 , together with Turkish destroyer D - 354 Kocatepe , she was subjected to friendly fire from Turkish warplanes and heavily demaged after being mistaken for a Greek ship . She was stricken and scrapped in April 1995 .