Fate
The Hugh Purvis was decommissioned 15 June 1972. She would then be sold to Turkey 1 July 1972, and renamed TCG Zafer (D 356). She served the Turkish navy until 1993, when the ship was returned to the United States. In 1994 the ship was broken up for scrap.
Read more about this topic: USS Hugh Purvis (DD-709)
Famous quotes containing the word fate:
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“I love Italian opera—it’s so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don’t care about their immortal souls, and don’t worry about the ultimate.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man. On the brink of the waters of life and truth, we are miserably dying.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)