USS Beatty (DD-640) a Gleaves-class destroyer was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Frank E. Beatty.Beatty was laid down as Mullany on 1 May 1941 at the Charleston Navy Yard.The name Beatty was originally assigned to a destroyer scheduled to be built in San Francisco but the names of DD-528 and DD-640 were switched on 28 May 1941 to accommodate Mrs. Charles H. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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