USS Noa (DD-841)
USS Noa underway on 1 April 1965 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Noa |
| Namesake | Loveman Noa |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down | 26 March 1945 |
| Launched | 30 July 1945 |
| Commissioned | 2 November 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 31 October 1973 |
| Stricken | 2 June 1975 |
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| Fate | Loaned to Spain, 31 October 1973 |
| Notes | Sold to Spain, 17 May 1978 |
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| Spain | |
| Name | Blas de Lezo |
| Namesake | Blas de Lezo |
| Acquired | 31 October 1973 |
| Identification | Hull number: D-65 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1991 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | |
| Displacement | 3,460 long tons (3,516 t) full |
| Length | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
| Beam | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
| Propulsion | Geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
| Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 336 |
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USS Noa (DD-841) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second U.S. Navy ship named for Midshipman Loveman Noa (1878–1901). She was in commission in the U.S. Navy from 1945 to 1973, serving during the Cold War in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Mediterranean, Middle East, and Indian Ocean and off the Korean Peninsula. In 1962 she recovered Project Mercury astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. and his Friendship 7 spacecraft after Glenn completed the first orbital spaceflight by an American. She also operated off South Vietnam in 1969 during the Vietnam War.
After the conclusion of Noa′s U.S. Navy career, she served in the Spanish Navy as the Churruca-class destroyer SPS Blas de Lezo (D65) from 1973 to 1991.