Vietnam War service

Norris  was decommissioned on 4 December 1970, and struck from the Navy List  on 1 February 1974. Transferred to Turkey  on 1 July 1974, where the ship was renamed TCG Kocatepe . Kocatepe  was sold as scrap to Hurdasan Anonim Sirketi in June 1994.

1964–1966: Polaris and Gemini X

Deployed again to the Mediterranean from 1 October 1964 to 18 January 1965 and 19 August–7 December 1965, Norris  served in Polaris  support operations as a missile tracking ship from 1 to 15 April 1966, and in the primary recovery force for Gemini X from 12 to 23 July.

1958–1966: Evaluation, training, Cuba, and the Mediterranean

Norris  next served in Task Force Bravo, an experimental anti-submarine development group, until her next 6th Fleet duty from June–August 1960. After a FRAM II  conversion at Philadelphia  from March to December 1961, Norris  had over a year of intensive Atlantic Fleet training operations, including a midshipman training cruise. She was reclassified a general purpose destroyer (DD-859)  on 7 August 1962 and in October took station off Cuba  during the quarantine provoked by the missile crisis. With the return of quiet, she was back in Newport in December to prepare for another Mediterranean deployment, which took place from 6 February–7 July 1963. In August, an experimental wire-guided torpedo system was installed by Boston Naval Shipyard , and Norris  spent much of the next year testing and evaluating the new system.

1955–1957: Gibraltar, North Atlantic, and South America

From 2 May to 4 June 1955 she escorted replacements for the 6th Fleet to Gibraltar, then returned to anti-submarine evaluation and training in the western Atlantic and Caribbean, broken by a three-week patrol in the North Atlantic during the November 1956 Suez crisis. With Destroyer Squadron 24 she made an extended training cruise to South America  from early January to late March 1957, visiting ports in Brazil , Argentina , and Uruguay  between antisubmarine exercises with various Latin American navies. She returned to the Mediterranean from August to December 1957, also serving in the Red Sea  during this deployment

Mid 1952–1954: NATO exercise, Mediterranean cruises, collision

Peacekeeping duty with the United States Sixth Fleet  continued until 27 June, when she returned to Newport to prepare for “ Operation Main Brace “, a major NATO  exercise in the North Sea  that took place from 26 August to 12 October. Mediterranean cruises from April 1952–February 1953 and January 1954–May 1954 followed, and from 28 June 1954 she operated primarily with the Hunter-Killer Force of the Atlantic Fleet for the next 15 months. During a fleet exercise on 1 November, she collided with USS Bergall (SS-320)  when the submarine was attempting to fire torpedoes at the surface attack force.

Late 1950–mid 1952: Korean War service

Joining in blockade, patrol, fire support, and screening duties, Norris  gave gunfire support during the Hŭngnam  evacuation in early December 1950, and while on blockade rescued 21 South Koreans  from a drifting junk off North Korea. Returning to Newport early in March 1951, Norris  overhauled at Boston  and trained in the North Atlantic and Caribbean  until sailing on 19 April 1952 for her deferred first Mediterranean deployment.

Norris  was laid down on 29 August 1944 by Bethlehem Steel  Corp. in San Pedro, California. She was sponsored by the widow of Major Benjamin Norris, by proxy, Mrs. Charles Browning; and commissioned on 9 June 1945, Commander T. A. Nisemann in command.