USS Somers (DD-381)
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_at_the_Charleston_Naval_Shipyard_on_16_February_1942_(NH_98021).jpg) USS Somers |
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| Construction and service time | |
| Ordered: | |
| Keel laying: | June 27, 1935 |
| Launch: | March 13, 1937 |
| Commissioning: | December 1, 1937 |
| Decommissioning: | October 28, 1945 |
| Painted: | January 28, 1947 |
| Fate: | sold to Boston Metals |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement: |
Standard : 1850 ts Maximum: 2905 ts |
| Length: | 116 m |
| Width: | 11.25 m |
| Draft: | 4.3 m |
| Drive: | 52,000 shaft horsepower, two screws |
| Speed: | 39 knots |
| Crew: | 294 |
The USS Somers (DD-381) was for the United States Navy mid-1930s in Kearny, New Jersey built and was eponymous for the destroyer of Somers class . The ship was named after the US Navy officer Richard Somers (1778 or 1779 to 1805).
On November 6, 1941, the USS Somers, together with the cruiser USS Omaha, managed to capture the German freighter Odenwald , which - disguised as the US merchant ship Willmoto - transported approx. 3,500 tons of rubber . At the time, rubber was in short supply, essential for the war effort, but the USA did not officially enter the war against the German Reich until December 11, 1941 . The USS Somers was also involved in the hunt for the blockade breakers Annelise Essberger near St. Pauls on November 21, 1942 and Weserland (other sources name Westerland ) in the South Atlantic on January 2, 1944 - both of which were sunk by its own crew.
In May 1944, the Somers was assigned as an escort ship to the North Atlantic and in June / July of that year protected ships that crossed the English Channel towards Normandy . In August / September 1944, it was used in the Mediterranean in the invasion of southern France, where they the German on 15 August 1944 Chaser SG 21 (which in 1940 captured French Admiral Senes ) and the German U-hunter UJ 6082 (the captured in September 1943 Italian Antelope ) and was damaged by enemy fire in a coastal bombardment. She then resumed service as an escort until the end of the war.
After the war, the USS Somers served as a training ship until it was decommissioned. In 1947 the ship was sold for scrapping.
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