USS Hawkins (DD-873) was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. Hawkins was originally Beatty, but renamed 22 June 1944 and launched by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas, 7 October 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Clara Jane Hawkins, mother of First Lieutenant William Deane Hawkins (killed on Tarawa); and commissioned 10 February 1945, Comdr. C. Iverson in command.
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