USS Charles R. Ware (DD-865), was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant Charles R. Ware USN (1911--1942), who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for heroism in the Battle of Midway. Charles R. Ware was laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island in New York on 1 November 1944, launched on 12 April 1945 by Mrs. Z. Ware and commissioned on 21 July 1945.
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