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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
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).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 98020
USS Somers (DD-301)
Underway at very low speed, circa 1923-1930.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 42193
USS Somers (DD-301)
Underway in harbor, circa 1923-1930.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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