USS Stickell (DD-888) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy in service from 1945 to 1972. She was renamed HS Kanaris (D212) (Greek: Φ/Γ Κανάρης) in 1972 on transfer to the Hellenic Navy.

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Named for: John H. Stickell. Displacement: 2425 tons. Length: 390 feet 6 inches . Beam: 40 feet 10 inches. Draft: 19 feet

Preferring to risk his own life and suffer pain rather than risk the safety of his crew and plane, Lt. Stickell ordered his co-pilot to pass up the dangerously narrow airstrip at Tarawa and head for a safer field over 400 miles away. Lt. Stickell died of his wounds six days later.

USS Stickell (DD-888) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy in service from 1945 to 1972. She was renamed HS Kanaris (D212) (Greek: Φ/Γ Κανάρης) in 1972 on transfer to the Hellenic Navy.

USS Stickell (DDR-888) underway in 1958. Stickell was assigned to the battle group of the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42), from which this photo was taken. Photo from the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt website, taken by Jim Mulligan, USN. Robert Hurst: 113k

USS STICKELL was one of the GEARING - class destroyers and the first ship in the Navy to bear the name. Both decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on July 1, 1972, the ship was transferred to the Greek Navy the same day and recommissioned as KANARIS.

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USS Stickell (DD-888) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Lieutenant John H. Stickell USNR (1914–1943), who was killed in action at Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands on 13 December 1943 and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

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