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Photo # NH 98020:  USS Somers underway at very low speed, circa 1923-1930

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USS Somers (Destroyer # 301, later DD-301), 1920-1931

USS Somers, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer, was built at San Francisco, California. Commissioned in June 1920, a few weeks later she was given the hull number DD-301. Following a brief period of active service that ended in October 1920, she was in reserve status. In March 1922 Somers resumed fleet duties, undertaking a steady program of exercises and training that lasted for the rest of the decade. During a transit from San Francisco to San Diego on 8 September 1923, she was lightly damaged when seven of her companion destroyers were wrecked in the Honda Point disaster.

Somers mainly served along the West Coast for the rest of her career, but several times went to the East Coast, Caribbean, Hawaii and Panama areas for major U.S. Fleet maneuvers. In July-September 1925, during the inter-war Battle Fleet's longest cruise, she crossed the Pacific to visit Australia, New Zealand and American Samoa. USS Somers was decommissioned in April 1930 and scrapped at the Mare Island Navy Yard in 1930-31.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Somers (DD-301).


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Photo #: NH 98020

USS Somers (DD-301)


Underway at very low speed, circa 1923-1930.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 119KB; 740 x 585 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 42193

USS Somers (DD-301)


Underway in harbor, circa 1923-1930.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 585 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98019

Culebra Island, Puerto Rico


Destroyers at anchor in Culebra Bay, during the 1920s.
Identifiable ships present include:
USS Somers (DD-301), at right;
USS Reno (DD-303), at left;
USS Henshaw (DD-278), left center;
USS Flusser (DD-289), beyond Henshaw;
USS Sinclair (DD-275), center.

Collection of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 47KB; 740 x 450 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 82564

Destroyers moored together at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa 1925


The ships present include (from right to left):
USS Somers (DD-301);
USS Farragut (DD-300);
USS John Francis Burnes (DD-299);
USS Percival (DD-298); and
USS Stoddert (DD-302).
The outboard destroyer (furthest to the left) can not be identified.

Photograph from the Albert Chamberlain photo album, donated by Colonel Carl Mahakian, USMCR, 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 81279

USS Langley (CV-1)


Underway off San Diego, California, 1928, with Vought VE-7 aircraft on her flight deck.
USS Somers (DD-301) is in the background.

Collection of Lieutenant Gustave J. Freret, USN(Retired), 1972.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 550 pixels

 


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