High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Harding (DD-625) (later DMS-28), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Seth Harding. Harding was launched 28 June 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, Washington, sponsored by Mrs. Sherwood A. Taffinder; and commissioned 25 May 1943, Lieutenant Commander G. G. Palmer in command. After shakedown out of San Diego, Harding sailed 1 July for Norfolk, via the Panama Canal. Arriving Hampton Roads on 19 July, she trained in Chesapeake Bay and off the East Coast. She joined a convoy at Norfolk on 16 August 1943 and for the next eight months was assigned antisubmarine patrol for merchant convoys in the Atlantic. During this period of guarding the sea Harding made three round trips to Casablanca.

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