Allied Warships

USS Somers (DD 381)

Destroyer of the Somers class

USS Somers during the war

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Somers
Pennant	DD 381
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	27 Jun 1935
Launched	13 Mar 1937
Commissioned	1 Dec 1937
End service
History	Decommissioned 13 October 1945. Stricken 28 January 1947. Sold on 16 May 1947 and broken up for scrap by Boston Metals, Baltimore, Maryland.

Commands listed for USS Somers (DD 381)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. James Edward Maher, USN	1 Dec 1937	late 1939
2	Cdr. Jeffrey Caswell Metzel, Jr., USN	late 1939	early 1942 (1)
3	Lt.Cdr. Arthur Crosby Wood, USN	early 1942	26 Feb 1943
4	T/Cdr. William Christopher Hughes, Jr., USN	26 Feb 1943	25 Oct 1944 (1)
5	Edward Michael Luby, USN	25 Oct 1944	13 Oct 1945

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Notable events involving Somers include:

20 May 1942
USS R-12 (Lt. E.E. Shelby, USN) participated in A/S exercises of St. Thomas together with USS Davis (Lt.Cdr. M.R. Peterson, USN) and USS Somers (Lt.Cdr. A.C. Wood, USN).

21 May 1945
From 21 to 23 May 1945, HMS Sheffield (Capt. J.W.M. Eaton, DSO, DSC, RN) conducted trials and exercises in the Gulf of Maine. She was escorted by the destroyers USS Somers (T/Lt.Cdr. E.M. Luby, USN) and USS Davis (T/Lt.Cdr. T.D. Cunningham, USN). (2)