USS Braine (DD-630) was a Fletcher-class destroyer. Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine, put her in the water on 7 March 1943. Mrs. Daniel L. Braine sponsored the ship. Her husband was a grandson of Rear Admiral Daniel L. Braine, who had served in the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. The Navy commissioned Braine on 11 May 1943, and J. F. Newman took command that day.
Braine survived the Second World War. She reached the United States on 19 July 1945. On 21 July she steamed to Boston, then went on to the Charleston Navy Yard to be prepared for layup. On 26 July 1946 the Navy took her out of commission and placed her in reserve at Charleston.
The ship returned to commission on 6 April 1951. She trained in the Atlantic and the Caribbean, and in the spring of 1952 crossed to the Mediterranean for duty with the Sixth Fleet. Coastal work resumed that October. From May to October 1953 she served again with the Sixth Fleet. Between October 1953 and 2 November 1954 the ship underwent a yard period, carried out refresher training in the Caribbean, and operated locally near Newport.
On 30 November 1954 Braine sailed for the Pacific and by mid-December had joined the cruiser and destroyer forces of the Pacific Fleet. Early in January 1955 she continued to Yokosuka, Japan, and entered Task Force 77. She was back on the west coast on 19 June 1955. A further western Pacific cruise began on 13 February 1956 and ended in California on 22 July 1956. She then operated around San Diego and San Francisco. In 1964 she was among the ships filmed for the motion picture In Harm's Way.
On 17 August 1971 the United States decommissioned Braine for the last time, struck her from the Navy list, and transferred her to Argentina under the Security Assistance Program. The Argentine Navy renamed her ARA Almirante Domecq Garcia (D23), honoring Admiral Manuel Domecq Garcia, and commissioned her at Treasure Island in San Francisco. The admiral's daughter, Mrs. Eugenia Domecq Garcia de Forn, attended the ceremony. Commander Mario Eduardo Olmas took command and hoisted the Argentine flag. The same year Argentina also acquired the Fletcher-class destroyer USS Cowell (DD-547) and renamed her ARA Almirante Storni (D-24).
After light repairs, Almirante Domecq Garcia left California in October 1971, reached El Callao in November, and on 21 November 1971 joined the fleet at the naval base of Puerto Belgrano. From 1975 to 1980 she mixed fleet exercises with surveillance duty. In 1976 she trained alongside the Brazilian destroyers Pernambuco and Maranhao, ships of the same class as herself. She joined UNITAS XVII in 1976, COMORAN IV in 1977, and COMORAN VI in 1978. Her flag was lowered on 30 November 1982, after 123,000 nautical miles under Argentine colors. On 7 October 1983, off Mar del Plata, she was sunk as a target by an Exocet MM38 from the corvette ARA Drummond and a torpedo from the submarine ARA San Luis. The wreck lies at 39 degrees 57 minutes south, 57 degrees 57 minutes west.