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&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Somers_(DD-301)_during_the_1920s_(NH_98020).jpg) USS Somers during the 1920s
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Somers |
| Namesake | Richard Somers |
| Builder | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Union Iron Works, San Francisco |
| Laid down | 4 July 1918 |
| Launched | 28 December 1918 |
| Commissioned | 23 June 1920 |
| Decommissioned | 10 April 1930 |
| Stricken | 18 November 1930 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 19 March 1931 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,215 tons |
| Length | 314 ft 4+1⁄2 in (95.8 m) |
| Beam | 30 ft 11+1⁄2 in (9.4 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 4 in (2.8 m) |
| Propulsion | 4 boilers, 2 Westinghouse geared turbines, 27,600 shp (20,600 kW) |
| Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
| Range | 4,900 nmi (9,100 km; 5,600 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 122 officers and enlisted |
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USS Somers (DD-301), a Clemson-class destroyer, engaged in peacetime operations with the Pacific Fleet from 1920 until she was scrapped under the London Naval Treaty in 1930. She was the fourth ship of the United States Navy named for Richard Somers.