USS Cone (DD-866)

USS Cone (DD-866)

USS Cone (DD-866), was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral Hutch Ingham Cone USN (1871–1941).

Cone was laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island in New York on 30 November 1944, launched on 10 May 1945 by Mrs. H. I. Cone and commissioned on 18 August 1945.

Cone alternated operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean with the 2nd Fleet with deployments with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, and participated in Sea Dragon and Market Time operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out Naval Gunfire Support missions during the Vietnam War.