USS Hammerberg
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USS Hammerberg (DE-1015), a Dealey-class destroyer escort, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Navy diver Francis P. Hammerberg (1920–1945), of Daggett, Michigan, who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for rescuing two fellow divers from a wreck in Pearl Harbor.
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Name | USS Hammerberg |
Namesake | Francis P. Hammerberg |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 12 November 1953 |
Launched | 20 August 1954 |
Commissioned | 2 March 1955 |
Stricken | 14 December 1973 |
Homeport | Naval Station Newport, RI |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 14 June 1974 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Dealey-class destroyer escort |
Displacement | 1,877 long tons (1,907 t) full load |
Length | 314 ft 6 in (95.86 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 9 in (11.20 m) |
Draft | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
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Speed | 27 knots (31 mph; 50 km/h) |
Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
Complement | 170 |
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Service record | |
Operations: | Cuban Missile Crisis |
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Hammerberg was launched 20 August 1954 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Moss; and commissioned 2 March 1955.
Based at Naval Station Newport Rhode Island, Hammerberg participated in convoy exercises, trained students at the Fleet Sonar School, Key West, and conducted antisubmarine warfare exercises during her first 2½ years of service. U