USS Rogers (DD-876)
Gearing-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Rogers.
36.8913352°N 126.8251731°E / 36.8913352; 126.8251731
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USS Rogers on 8 September 1967 | |
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Name | Rogers |
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Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation |
Laid down | 3 June 1944 |
Launched | 20 November 1944 |
Commissioned | 26 March 1945 |
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Reclassified | DDR-876, 18 March 1949 |
Decommissioned | 1 October 1980 |
Stricken | 1 October 1980 |
Motto | On Target |
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Fate | Transferred to South Korea, 25 July 1981 |
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South Korea | |
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Acquired | 11 August 1981 |
Decommissioned | 31 December 1999 |
Identification | Hull number: DD-925 |
Status | Museum ship in Dangjin |
General characteristics | |
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Displacement | 3,450 long tons (3,505 t) |
Length | 396 ft 8 in (121 m) |
Beam | 40 ft 10 in (12 m) |
Draft | 18 ft 6 in (6 m) |
Propulsion | 600 psi steam turbine reduction gear |
Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Complement | 260 |
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USS Rogers (DD-876) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for three brothers — Jack Ellis Rogers Jr., Charles Ethbert Rogers, and Edward Keith Rogers — killed in action aboard USS New Orleans during the Battle of Tassafaronga in the Solomon Islands on 30 November 1942.
Rogers's keel was laid down on 3 June 1944 by Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas. The ship was launched on 20 November 1944, sponsored by the Mother, Mrs. Josie Viola Taylor Rogers, wife of Jack Ellis Rogers Sr., and commissioned on 26 March 1945.