USS Somers DDG-34

USS Somers DDG-34 Commissioned as a FORREST SHERMAN - class destroyer, the USS SOMERS was the sixth ship in the Navy to bear the name.

From April 1966 to February 1968, the SOMERS was converted to a guided missile destroyer and was redesignated as DDG 34. General Characteristics: Keel laid: March 4, 1957
Launched: May 30, 1958
Commissioned: April 3, 1959
Decommissioned: November 19, 1982
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Propulsion system: four-1200 lb. boilers; two steam turbines; two shafts
Propellers: two
Length: 418.3 fee

t (127.5 meters)
Beam: 45,3 feet (13.8 meters)
Draft: 22 feet (6.7 meters)
Displacement: approx. 4,150 tons full load
Speed: 32+ knots
Aircraft: none
Armament: one Mk-42 5-inch/54 caliber guns, Mk-32 ASW torpedo tubes (two triple mounts), one Mk-16 ASROC missile launcher, one Mk-13 Mod.1 missile launcher for Standard MR missiles
Crew: 25 officers, 339 enlisted

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