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&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Somers_(DDG-34)_underway,_circa_in_the_early_1980s_(6483131).jpg) USS Somers (DDG-34)
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Namesake | Richard Somers |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down | 4 March 1957 |
| Launched | 30 May 1958 |
| Acquired | 1 April 1959 |
| Commissioned | 9 April 1959 |
| Decommissioned | 19 November 1982 |
| Reclassified | 15 March 1967 as a guided missile destroyer |
| Stricken | 26 April 1988 |
| Fate | Sunk as target, 22 July 1998 near Hawaii |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Forrest Sherman-class destroyer |
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| Length | 407 ft (124 m) waterline, 418 ft (127 m) overall. |
| Beam | 45 ft (14 m) |
| Draught | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
| Propulsion | 4 x 1,200 psi (8.3 MPa) Foster-Wheeler boilers, General Electric steam turbines; 70,000 shp (52 MW); 2 x shafts. |
| Speed | 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
| Range | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement | 15 officers, 218 enlisted. |
| Armament | 3 x 5 in (127 mm)/54 calibre dual purpose Mk 42 guns; 4 x 3 in (76 mm)/50 calibre Mark 33 anti-aircraft guns; 2 x mark 10/11 Hedgehogs; 6 x 12.75 in (324 mm) Mark 32 torpedo tubes. |
The sixth USS Somers (DDG-34, ex-DD-947) was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer when her keel was laid down at the Bath Iron Works on 4 March 1958, she was launched on 30 May, and commissioned on 3 April 1959.
Somers was decommissioned 11 April 1966, and converted at San Francisco Naval Shipyard. On 15 March 1967 she was reclassified as a guided missile destroyer, and was re-commissioned 10 February 1968. She was decommissioned on 19 November 1982 and on 26 April 1988, she was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. On 22 July 1998, she was sunk as target near Hawaii.