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{{Short description|Gearing-class destroyer}}
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|Ship image=File:USS Hollister (DD-788) underway off Oahu, Hawaii (USA), 2 October 1969 (NH 107172).jpg
|Ship caption=USS ''Hollister'' underway on 2 October 1969
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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag= {{USN flag|1979}}
|Ship name= ''Hollister'' 
|Ship namesake= [[Hollister brothers]]
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|Ship sponsor= Mrs. Howard J. Hollister
|Ship builder=[[Todd Pacific Shipyards]]
|Ship laid down= 18 January 1945
|Ship launched=9 October 1945
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|Ship commissioned= 29 March 1946
|Ship decommissioned=31 August 1979
|Ship identification=*[[Maritime call sign|Callsign]]: NTTE
*{{ICS|November}}{{ICS|Tango}}{{ICS|Tango}}{{ICS|Echo}}
*[[Hull number]]: DD-788
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|Ship struck= 31 August 1979
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|Ship fate=Transferred to [[Taiwan]], 3 March 1983
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|Ship badge=[[File:USS Hollister (DD-788) insignia.png|150px]]
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|Ship country=Taiwan
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Republic of China|naval}}
|Ship name= *''Shao Yang'' 
*(邵陽)
|Ship namesake= [[Shaoyang|Shao Yang]]
|Ship acquired= 3 March 1983
|Ship commissioned=15 November 1984
|Ship decommissioned=1 June 2004
|Ship identification= [[Hull number]]: DD-929
|Ship reclassified=DDG-929
|Ship fate=[[Artificial reef|Sunk as artificial reef]]
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|Ship class= {{sclass|Gearing|destroyer}}
|Ship displacement= {{convert|3460|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} full
|Ship length= {{convert|390|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}}
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|Ship propulsion=Geared turbines, 2 shafts, {{convert|60000|shp|MW|0|abbr=on}}
|Ship speed= {{convert|35|kn|lk=in}}
|Ship range= {{convert|4500|nmi|km|abbr=on}} at {{convert|20|kn|abbr=on}}
|Ship complement=336
|Ship armament=*6 × [[5"/38 caliber gun]]s
*12 × [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40 mm AA guns]]
*11 × [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm AA guns]]
*10 × [[American 21 inch torpedo|21 inch (533 mm)]] [[torpedo tube]]s
*6 × [[depth charge]] projectors
*2 × depth charge tracks
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'''USS ''Hollister'' (DD-788)''' was a {{sclass|Gearing|destroyer}} of the [[United States Navy]], named for the three [[Hollister brothers]], who were killed in 1943 while serving in the Navy during [[World War II]].

== Construction and career ==
''Hollister'' was [[Ship naming and launching|launched]] on 9 October 1945 by [[Todd Shipyard]], [[Seattle]], Washington; sponsored by Mrs. Howard J. Hollister, mother of the three Hollister brothers; and [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 29 March 1946.

=== Service in the United States Navy ===
After shakedown along the California coast, ''Hollister'' departed [[Naval Station San Diego|San Diego, California]] on 9 November 1946 for operations in the [[Far East]]. She arrived [[Shanghai]], on 1 December and later that month assisted the [[Korea]]n Government in the prevention of smuggling. She continued operations in Far Eastern waters until returning to San Diego on 22 June 1947. For the next 14 months ''Hollister'' engaged in training exercises and fleet maneuvers along the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]].

''Hollister'' departed on 1 September 1948 for her second deployment in the western Pacific where she joined the [[United States Seventh Fleet|7th Fleet]] on peacekeeping operations. She returned to Long Beach on 24 April 1949 and operated in [[California]] waters until July 1950.

==== Korean War ====
Immediately after [[North Korea]] invaded [[South Korea]] in June 1950, the United States committed its military might to halting aggression. ''Hollister'' was among the first reinforcements rushed to the battle area, departing San Diego on 5 July. Operating with Fast Carrier Task Force 77 (TF&nbsp;77), she served as a screening ship and performed plane guard duty. In mid-September ''Hollister'' engaged in support of the highly successful landing at [[Inchon]].
[[File:USS Chara (AKA-58) replenishing USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) and USS Hollister (DD-788), circa 1950.jpg|left|thumb|[[USS Chara (AKA-58)|Chara]] replenishing [[USS Philippine Sea (CV-47)|Philippine Sea]] and ''Hollister'' in 1950]]
The [[3rd Battalion 5th Marines|3d Battalion, 5th Marines]] landed at 06:33, 15 September. Later that day General [[Douglas MacArthur]] praised the performance saying that "The Navy and [[United States Marine Corps|Marines]] have never shone more brightly than this morning." A week later ''Hollister'' took Rear Admiral Ewen (TF-77) for a conference with Commander 7th Fleet. In a message to his command, Admiral Ewen echoed MacArthur in praising its work: "The performance of Task Force 77 throughout the [[Battle of Inchon|Inchon operations]] has added another page to the glorious history of our Navy and its airpower. It has been made possible only through the determination, the relentless effort and the esprit de corps of a team that is really great. Task Force 77 will sail for the high seas soon and will stay at sea until the North Korean Communists have their bellies full ..." In late September the destroyer was detached for diversionary bombardment in Communist-held areas, effectively weakening enemy positions as American forces smashed north.

In early November 1950, ''Hollister'' sailed with the [[Taiwan Strait|Formosa Straits]] patrol, returning to Korea in mid-December for support of the [[Hŭngnam]] evacuation. She continued support operations, anti-junk patrols and shore bombardment before returning to San Diego on 11 April 1951. ''Hollister'' operated in the San Diego area until she returned to Korean action a year later. In late April 1955, she resumed duties with Task Force 77, including fire-support missions, patrol, [[antisubmarine warfare]] (ASW) exercises and screening duty. ''Hollister'' joined the Formosa patrol in August, but resumed operations in Korea before returning to San Diego on 18 November.
[[File:USS Hollister (DD-788) being refueled in the Pacific Ocean in 1954.jpg|left|thumb|''Hollister'' being refueled in 1954]]
The veteran ship operated out of San Diego until 21 July 1953 when she sailed for another Far Eastern tour. ''Hollister'' engaged in patrols both off [[Korea]] and [[Taiwan|Formosa]] to make clear America's objective of protecting her allies. After six months in this area she returned home on 19 February 1954. In September, she was deployed to the Western Pacific at a time when the [[Chinese Communists]] were stirring trouble in the [[South China Sea]]. During the next three months she engaged in hunter-killer operations off [[Japan]] and had patrol duty in the South China Sea. In late January 1955, ''Hollister'' accompanied the 7th Fleet in [[First Taiwan Strait Crisis|the evacuation of Chinese Nationalists]] from the [[Tachen]] Islands. Constant aerial coverage from this powerful carrier force enabled the Nationalists to move from an untenable position. This was considered by some as "the most forthright U.S. action against communism since the [[Korean War]]." She returned to San Diego on 13 March for local operations.

Another deployment to the Far East from 27 September 1955 to 11 March 1956, saw ''Hollister'' resume her important peace keeping operations in this explosive area. Only six months passed before departing on another tour of duty with the 7th Fleet, this time visiting [[Samoa]], [[New Zealand]], [[Manus Island|Manus]], and [[Guam]] en route to the South China Sea. In January and February 1957, she operated with the [[Formosa Patrol]] and conducted training out of Japan before returning to San Diego 24 March.

''Hollister'' deployed on 25 October on her ninth Western Pacific tour. In the early months of 1958 she operated with units of the 7th Fleet on Formosa Patrol. Units in this area were placed on alert as a crisis in [[Indonesia]] threatened the existing government. The presence of U.S. seapower exerted a powerful influence; the crisis subsided. The destroyer returned to San Diego 23 April but sailed again for the Western Pacific on 18 December to operate with the 7th Fleet. Returning San Diego on 13 June 1959, ''Hollister'' spent the remainder of the year engaged in tactical exercises out of San Diego.

''Hollister'' departed on 6 February 1960 for her 11th Western Pacific deployment and began patrol duty in the [[Formosa Straits]]. This tour of duty also saw her engaged in various antisubmarine warfare exercises with the [[Philippine Navy]]. She returned to San Diego on 14 June to resume training and readiness operations.

''Hollister'' entered the [[Puget Sound Naval Shipyard]] on 15 March 1961 for FRAM ([[Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization]]) overhaul, remaining there through the end of the year for an addition of a [[helicopter]] deck and hangar aft. After refresher training, she departed [[Naval Station Long Beach|Long Beach, California]] on 7 June 1962 for duty with the [[United States Seventh Fleet|7th Fleet]]. This cruise came after the [[Laotian Civil War|Laos crisis]] and Communist insurgency threatened [[Thailand]].
[[File:USS Hollister (DD-788) in 1962.jpg|left|thumb|''Hollister'' in 1962]]
She remained in the Far East until 21 December 1962 when she returned to Long Beach. During 1963 ''Hollister'' engaged in shore bombardment exercises and antisubmarine training off the coast of California and in [[Hawaii]] water.

In the first half of 1964, ''Hollister'' engaged in antisubmarine exercises on the American West Coast. On 19 June, she departed Long Beach, California, with an antisubmarine group bound for [[Pearl Harbor]], arriving on 27 June. After passage to [[Japan]], she took up a station for contingency operations in the [[South China Sea]] on 4 August, and received the [[Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal]] for her patrol services off [[Vietnam]]. After continuing these operations intermittently until 17 November, ''Hollister'' began transit from [[United States Fleet Activities Yokosuka|Yokosuka, Japan]], to Long Beach on 23 December, arriving on 6 January 1965.

With three months of overhaul complete, the ship engaged in continuous training exercises from 28 May to 20 August. Deploying again to the western Pacific in August, ''Hollister'' was ordered to Taiwan Patrol duty on 14 September.

==== Vietnam War ====
By 22 September, she returned to [[Subic Bay]], [[Philippine Islands]], to commence [[plane guard]] and anti-submarine screen duties supporting {{USS|Bon Homme Richard|CV-31|3}}. ''Hollister'' accompanied the aircraft carrier on "[[Yankee Station]]" off Vietnam, giving valuable support to the naval operations exercised in opposing the North Vietnamese Communists.

On 19 December she left the station and arrived in Yokosuka on 30 December, prior to her departure for the United States the following day.

After a six-month repair and training period, ''Hollister'' left Long Beach on 25 June for the [[Far East]] once again. Arriving on 15 July, she screened carriers and prevented infiltration of supplies to the [[Viet Cong]]. ''Hollister'' remained in the Far East, where she was on station in May 1967.

After completing a Fleet in-depth overhaul in 1972, Hollister again departed Homeport, this time for her eighteenth deployment to the Western Pacific, carrying a new missile configuration. On 10 August 1972 Hollister became the first U.S. Naval Vessel to ever fire a Surface-to-Surface missile in anger. The missile silenced a North Vietnam Radar site. Only a day before, while on a three ship daylight raid on the Quang Yien storage complex, Hollister received at least 250 rounds of hostile fire. The Task unit destroyed a huge ammunition cache with Hollister returning 193 rounds of fire against enemy shore batteries on the heavily fortified island of Hon Me. This was considered the most daring Destroyer operation of the Vietnam War. The target was destroyed and the Task Unit retired without damage or a single casualty.

[[File: USS Southerland (DD-743) and Hollister (DD-788) at Puget Sound 1981.JPEG|thumb|Decommissioned ''Hollister'' and [[USS Southerland (DD-743)|''Southerland'']] at Puget Sound, 1981]]''Hollister'' returned from the Western Pacific for the last time in February 1973. Hollister's record included completing 21 Western Pacific deployments and action in two major conflicts.

In September 1973 "Hollister" was entered into the Reserve Fleet unit Desron 27, NAVSUPACT, Long Beach, California, with four other ships, the USS ''McKean'' DD784, USS ''Higbee'' DD806, USS ''DeHaven'' DD727 and the USS ''Henderson'' DD785. She operated as a training vessel for approximately 124 Naval Reservists. She had an active duty crew of approximately 212. During her reserve assignment she maintained high standards of preparedness to meet any assignment to which she was called.

''Hollister'' was decommissioned in September 1979. She was stricken from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 31 August 1979.

On 3 March 1983, ''Hollister'' was transferred to the [[Republic of China]].

=== Service in the Republic of China Navy ===
She was commissioned on 15 November 1984 in the [[Republic of China Navy]] as '''ROCS ''Shao Yang'' (DD-929)'''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=陽字號驅逐艦|url=http://www.navy77.url.tw/data%20page/DDG.htm|access-date=2021-09-10|website=navy77.url.tw}}</ref>

On 1 September 1988, ''[[USS English|Hui Yang]]'' was training in the open sea of [[Zuoying District|Zuoying]], and her shells on board the ship jammed. She was advised not enter the [[Zuoying District|Zuoying Naval Base]] as her jammed shells pose a danger to the dangerous goods but she did moored in the base despite the warning. On the next day, 2 September, there was a non-commissioned officer whom fired her gun by mistake, and the shell directly penetrated the bridge of ''Shao Yang'', killing 2 non-commissioned officers on the spot. The shells finally landed in the storage room of a family member's village. After these two deaths, the weapon commander, gunners and sergeants of the ship were sent to court martial, and an award from Colonel Lei Guangshu was also stripped.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=惠陽軍艦|url=http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~yingshao/dd906hueiyang.htm|access-date=2021-09-10|website=homepage.ntu.edu.tw}}</ref>

On 26 December 1990, she underwent the Wu-Chin III modernization.

In June 2002, the case of leaking secrets by Liu Yuelong on the ship broke out and Liu was later sentenced to life imprisonment.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=海盜 (seahandjack)|date=2006-08-01|title=DDG-929 海軍邵陽軍艦簡史|url=https://blog.xuite.net/seahandjack/twblog/104793625|access-date=2021-09-10|website=隨意窩 Xuite日誌}}</ref>

She was scheduled for decommissioning on 1 June 2004 at [[Kaohsiung]], Taiwan. After the ship was decommissioned, she was temporarily berthed at the No. 4 Shipyard of the [[Qijin|Qijin Navy Base]] in [[Kaohsiung Port]] to undergo disassembly for usable materials.<ref name=":1" />

In mid-June 2006, she served as a target ship for the [[Han Kuang Exercise|Han Kuang 22 exercise]] for naval and air force training, and berthed at the [[Su'ao|Suao Zhongzheng base]]. After the exercise of Hanguang 22, the ship was towed back to Qijinhai No. 4 Shipyard.<ref name=":1" />

She was towed out to sea to be sunk as an artificial reef.

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== External links ==
* {{navsource|05/788|USS Hollister}}
*[http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd788txt.htm  hazegray.org: USS ''Hollister'']

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