We get a lot of requests for destroyer plans, which can be hard to locate. But there are a lot of U.S. Navy vessels that went on to serve in the navies of other countries, and sometimes those hard to find plans can be located in those countries’ archives. Such is the case with USS O’Hare DD-889 which went on to serve in the Spanish Navy as the Méndez Núñez (D63). Launched in 1945, this Gearing class destroyer served the U.S. Navy until 1973, when she was transferred to Spain, where she served nearly another 20 years before being scrapped in 1992. Check out her plans.

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