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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1945}} | Ship name=USS Castle | Ship namesake=Guy W. S. Castle | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newark, New Jersey | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=11 July 1945 | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=Never | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=Never | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck=2 November 1954 | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification=DD-720 | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Sold incomplete for scrapping 29 August 1955 | Ship status= | Ship notes=Construction suspended when 60.3% complete | Ship badge=
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}} | USS Castle (DD-720) was a planned United States Navy {{sclass-|Gearing|destroyer|0}} destroyer laid down during World War II but never completed. It was to be named for Guy W. S. Castle (1879-1919), a United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient. Castle was laid down on 11 July 1945 by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Newark, New Jersey. The end of World War II in August 1945 resulted in the termination of the contract for her construction on 11 December 1945. Although the award of the contract was reinstated, work on Castle was suspended on 11 February 1946. A little over five months later, on 18 July 1946, the Commandant, 3rd Naval District, was authorized to accept Castle in an uncompleted state. Delivered as 60.3% complete, Castle was slated for scrapping in a Congressional resolution approved on 23 August 1954. Her name was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 2 November 1954, and she was sold for scrapping on 29 August 1955. References- {{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/c/castle.html}}
- NavSource Naval History Photographic History of the United States Navy Destroyer Archive USS Castle (DD-720)
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