USS Rogers (DD-876)
Service
- as Rogers26 March 1945 — 1 October 1980160 days of the war
- as Jeongju11 August 1981 — 31 December 1999
- Name
- USS Rogers
- Pennant / hull number
- DD-876
- Namesake
- Jack Ellis Rogers Jr.
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation
- Laid down
- 3 June 1944
- Launched
- 20 November 1944
- Commissioned
- 26 March 1945
- Decommissioned
- 1 October 1980
- Struck
- 1 October 1980
- Fate
- Transferred to South Korea, 25 July 1981 (1981)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 3,450 long tons (3,505 t)
- Length
- 120.7 m (396 ft)
- Beam
- 12.19 m (40 ft)
- Draught
- 5.49 m (18 ft)
- Speed
- 34 knots (63 km/h, 39.1 mph)
- Complement
- 260
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
Three brothers, Jack Ellis, Jr., Charles Ethbert, and Edwin Keith Rogers were lost in action on 30 November 1942 when an enemy torpedo ripped away the bow of the heavy cruiser New Orleans (CA-32) during the Battle of Tassafaronga in the Solomon Islands.
Rogers (DD-876) was laid down 3 June 1944 by Consolidated Steel Co., Orange, Tex.; launched 20 November 1944; sponsored by Mrs. J. E. Rogers, Sr.; and commissioned 26 March 1945, Comdr. C. B. Smiley in command.
Following shakedown off Guantanamo Bay, Rogers was converted to a picket ship at the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va. After further training in the Atlantic and Caribbean, Rogers transited the Panama Canal and touched at San Diego before reaching Pearl Harbor 4 August 1945.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Rogers (DD-876)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 600 psi steam turbine reduction gear
- Armament
- 4 × 5"/38 caliber guns
- ASROC Anti-Submarine Missile Battery
- Mark 44 torpedoes
Sister ships
- USS Abner Read (DD-769)
- USS Benner (DD-807)
- USS Bordelon
- USS Charles P. Cecil
- USS Charles R. Ware (DD-865)
- USS Chevalier (DD-805)
- USS Corry (DD-817)
- USS Dennis J. Buckley (DD-808)
- USS Duncan (DD-874)
- USS Dyess
- USS Eugene A. Greene
- USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830)
- USS Floyd B. Parks
- USS Frank Knox
- USS Fred T. Berry
- USS Furse
- USS Gearing
- USS George K. MacKenzie
- USS Goodrich
- USS Gurke
- USS Gyatt
- USS Hanson
- USS Harold J. Ellison (DD-864)
- USS Hawkins
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Rogers (DD-876) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Rogers (DD-876) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-107000/NH-107133.html — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons