High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Bausell (DD-845) was a Gearing-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. She was named for Marine Corporal Lewis K. Bausell (1924 1944), who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for "conspicuous gallantry" during the Battle of Peleliu. Bausell was laid down on 28 May 1945 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works; launched on 19 November 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Lawrence K. Bausell, Corporal Bausell's mother. She was commissioned at Boston, Massachusetts on 7 February 1946, Commander James V. Bewick in command.