Hull Number: DD-882
Launch Date: 03/09/1945
Commissioned Date: 07/10/1945
Decommissioned Date: 08/31/1972
Call Sign: NBHY (59-61)
Voice Call Sign: STAIRCASE, FATAL, PAYMASTER (1950), ROAD MASTER
Namesake: JOHN HOUSEAL FURSE
JOHN HOUSEAL FURSE
Disposition:
Scheduled to relieve MOALE (DD-693) as NRT, Brooklyn, NY on 07/01/1972, but this was cancelled 05/10/1972. Transferred to Spain, as loan, on 08/31/1972 as GRAVINA (D-62). Sold to Spain 5/1978.