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	USS Somers
		The second Somers was launched by the New York Navy Yard on 16 April 1842, and was commissioned on 12 May 1842, Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie in command.
		On this voyage, Somers was acting as an experimental schoolship for naval apprentices.
		Somers was in the Gulf of Mexico off Vera Cruz at the opening of the Mexican War in the spring of 1846; and, but for runs to Pensacola for logistics, she remained in that area on blockade duty until winter.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s/somers.htm (832 words)

	USS Somers (DD-301) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Somers (DD-301), a Clemson-class destroyer, engaged in peacetime operations with the Pacific Fleet from 1920 until she was scrapped under the London Naval Treaty in 1930.
		Somers remained in the north for summer exercises with the Battle Fleet and, on 25 and 26 July, carried staff officers of President Warren G. Harding from Seattle, Washington to Vancouver, British Columbia, during the President's Alaskan trip.
		Somers was struck from the Navy list on 18 November 1930, scrapped at Mare Island in 1930 and 1931, and her materials were sold on 19 March 1931.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Somers_(DD-301) (955 words)

	Encyclopedia: USS Somers (1842) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The second USS Somers was a brig in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War.
		Somers was launched by the New York Navy Yard on 16 April 1842 and commissioned on 12 May 1842, Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie in command.
		Somers was in the Gulf of Mexico off Vera Cruz at the opening of the Mexican-American War in the spring of 1846; and, but for runs to Pensacola, Florida, for logistics, she remained in that area on blockade duty until winter.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/USS-Somers-(1842) (1741 words)

	USS Somers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Somers was a schooner that fought under Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry on Lake Erie and Lake Huron, and took part in the capture of the British Squadron on 10 September 1813.
		The second Somers was a brig launched by the New York Navy Yard on 16 April 1842 and commissioned on 12 May 1842, Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie in command.
		The third, USS Somers (TB-22), was a torpedo boat built in Germany in 1895 and purchased during the War of 1898.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Somers (337 words)

	United States Navy
		USS Thresher - sunk in an accident in 1963
		USS Merrimac - a wooden warship rebuilt by the Confederates as the ironclad CSS Virginia
		Sank the USS Husitania with its spar-mounted torpedo, but was sunk during or soon after the same battle, with all hands on board.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/US_Navy.html (709 words)

	Vessels of JAG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In November of 1944, USS Ellyson was reclassified as DMS 19, a high-speed minesweeper.
		The original USS Farragut, DD 300, was a Clemson class destroyer, commissioned in June of 1920 and decommissioned in April of 1930.
		Her service until 1919 was principally with the Maryland and Illinois Naval Militias and on coastal patrol during World War I. The fourth USS Somers (DD-301) was a Clemson-class destroyer engaged in peacetime operations with the Pacific Fleet from 1920 until she was scrapped under the London Disarmament Treaty in 1930.
	www.jagarchive.com /Miscellaneous/VesselsOfJAG.htm (3022 words)

	USS Somers (1842) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The second USS Somers was a (A penal institution (especially on board a ship)) brig in the (The navy of the United States of America; maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces) United States Navy during the (Click link for more info and facts about Mexican-American War) Mexican-American War.
		Somers was launched by the (Click link for more info and facts about New York Navy Yard) New York Navy Yard on 16 April 1842 and commissioned on 12 May 1842, Commander (Click link for more info and facts about Alexander Slidell Mackenzie) Alexander Slidell Mackenzie in command.
		Somers reached (The Apostle who would not believe the resurrection of Jesus until he saw Jesus with his own eyes) St.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/U/US/USS_Somers_(1842)2.htm (635 words)

	USS Somers VI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		During her second and third deployments, in 1961 and 1963, Somers steamed to Australia to participate in the celebrations commemorating 19th and 21st anniversaries of the Battle of the Coral Sea.
		From then until February 1968, Somers was in the shipyard having 90% of her superstructure replaced, receiving the Tartar surface-to-air missile system and the ASROC antisubmarine rocket system.
		Somers was assigned to the 7th Fleet from December 1970 until 4 May 1971.
	www.navyhistory.com /destroyer2/somersVI.html (1127 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS Somers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		USS Somers, the second ship of the name, was named for Richard Somers, who died while commanding the bomb ketch Intrepid at Tripoli in 1804.
		Under command of Captain Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Somers sailed from New York on September 12, 1842, bound for Monrovia with dispatches for the slave patrol frigate USS Vandalia.
		On December 8, 1846, while chasing a blockade-runner, Somers capsized in a squall and sank with the loss of 32 of her 76 crew.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_085600_usssomers.htm (403 words)

	USS Somers (DDG 34)
		USS SOMERS was laid down on 4 March 1957 by the Bath Iron Works Corp., at Bath, Maine, Iaunched on 30 May 1958; sponsored by Mrs.
		During her second and third deployments, in 1961 and 1963, SOMERS steamed to Australia to participate in the celebrations commemorating 19th and 21st anniversaries of the Battle of the Coral Sea.
		SOMERS completed her restricted availability on 3 January 1972 and began trials, tests, and exercises which lasted through 31 March.
	navysite.de /dd/ddg34.htm (1351 words)

	Idiocentrism
		When the USS Philadelphia was captured, the American commander realized that it would be dangerous to leave it in enemy hands, so Lt. Stephen Decatur and 70 volunteers were sent (in a captured Tripolitan ship renamed the Intrepid) on a bold raid to destroy the Philadelphia.
		This raid was successful, and when British Admiral Lord Nelson heard of the raid, he called it "the most bold and daring act of the age." Reuben James made his name in this fight by protecting Decatur from one of the pirates, and he went on to long career in the US Navy.
		"In September, 1804, Lieutenant Somers was given charge of the Intrepid, a bomb ketch that had been filled with explosives and was to be sailed into the harbor at Tripoli and set to explode in the centre of the enemy fleet after the crew had abandoned her.
	www.idiocentrism.com /barbary.htm (1616 words)

	USS Somers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		She sank in 1846 while serving in the (After disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000) Mexican War.
		The third, USS Somers (TB-22), was a (Small high-speed warship designed for torpedo attacks in coastal waters) torpedo boat built in (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) Germany in 1895 and purchased during the War of 1898.
		Her service until 1919 was principally with the Maryland and Illinois Naval Militias and on coastal patrol during (A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918) World War I.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/U/US/USS_Somers2.htm (303 words)

	USS Somers II
		The second Somers was launched by the New York Navy Yard on 16 April 1842, and was commissioned on 12 May 1842, Comdr.
		On 1 December the officers reported that they had "come to a eooi, decided and unanimous opinion" that the prisoners were "gulity of a full and determined intention to commit a mutiny;" and they recommended that the three be put to death.
		Somers was in the Gulf of Mexico off Vera Cruz at the opening of the Mexican War in the spring of 1846, and but for runs to Pensacola for logistics, she remained ;n that area on blockade duty until winter.
	www.navyhistory.com /Brigatines/somersII.html (476 words)

	USS Somers (DDG 34)
		USS SOMERS was decommissioned after more than 23 years of service on November 19, 1982.
		She was stricken from the Navy list on April 26, 1988, and on July 22, 1998, the SOMERS was finally disposed of as a target north of Kauai, HI, at 022° 21' North, 160° 58' West.
		USS SOMERS was laid down on 4 March 1957 by the Bath Iron Works Corp., at Bath, Maine, Iaunched on 30 May 1958; sponsored by Mrs.
	united-states-navy.com /dd/ddg34.htm (1324 words)

	USS Somers - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		She was captured by the British in 1814.
		The fifth, Somers (DD-381), was the lead ship of the Somers-class destroyers.
		The sixth, Somers (DDG-34, ex-DD-947), was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer when her keel was laid down at the Bath Iron Works on 4 March 1958, she was launched on 30 May, and commissioned on 3 April 1959.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/USS_Somers (359 words)

	Richard Somers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Promoted to (A commissioned military officer) lieutenant on 21 May 1799, Somers was detached from United States on 13 June 1801 and ordered to (Click link for more info and facts about Boston) Boston on 30 July 1801.
		Thereafter, (A port city and commerical center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea) Tripoli became the focus of Preble's attention.
		In the summer, he commanded a division of (A small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols) gunboats during five attacks on Tripoli.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/richard_somers.htm (203 words)

	uss somers
		Somers reached St. Thomas on 5 December and returned to New York on 14 December.
		On 6 November 1941, she and the cruiser USS Omaha captured the German freighter Odenwald which was carrying 3800 tons of scarce rubber while disguised as the American merchantman Willmoto.
		Somer next participated in the Normandy and Southern France invasions providing naval gunfire support as well as serving in the anti-submarine screen.
	www.fact-library.com /uss_somers.html (1198 words)

	United States Navy - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		These are the other major strategic arm of the Navy as they can be used directly to control naval and shipping activity by other powers as well as serving as missile-launching platforms.
		USS Pueblo - intelligence vessel captured by North Korea.
		Sank the USS Housatonic with its spar-mounted torpedo, but was sunk during or soon after the same battle, with all hands on board.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /u/un/united_states_navy.html (2771 words)

	USS Somers (DD-947) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Somers was decommissioned 11 April 1966, and converted at San Francisco Naval Shipyard.
		On 15 March 1967 she was reclassified as a Decatur-class guided missile destroyer, and was re-commissioned 10 February 1968.
		On 21 July 1998, two B-52s from the 20th Bomb Squadron fired missiles at Somers as part of the Rim of the Pacific 1998 exercise.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Somers_%28DD-947%29 (427 words)

	ipedia.com: United States Navy Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		These are the other major strategic arm of the Navy as they can be used directly to control naval and shipping activity by other powers as well as serving as missile-launching platforms.
		USS Pueblo - intelligence vessel captured by North Korea.
		Sank the USS Housatonic with its spar-mounted torpedo, but was sunk during or soon after the same battle, with all hands on board.
	www.ipedia.com /united_states_navy.html (2842 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - USS Somers - Mutiny or Murder?
		She was named after Lieutenant Richard Somers, who had served in the war against the Barbary Pirates - a group of countries along the western end of the African coast, along the Mediterranean Sea.
		As the Somers was being used as an experimental school ship in hopes of recruitment, a large portion of her crew consisted of teenage apprentice volunteers.
		After crossing the Atlantic, the Somers stopped at the ports of the Portuguese island of Madeira, Tenerife in the Canary Islands, and Puerto Pria in the Cape Verde Islands, inquiring at each about the whereabouts of the Vandalia.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1162388 (3098 words)

	The US Navy
		Yorktown departed Pearl Harbor on 20 April 1941 in company with USS Warrington (DD-383), USS Somers (DD-381), and USS Jouett (DD-396); headed southeast, transited the Panama Canal on the night of 6 and 7 May, and arrived at Bermuda on the 12th.
		On 28 October, while Yorktown, the battleship USS New Mexico (BB 40), and other American warships were screening a convoy, a destroyer picked up a submarine contact and dropped depth charges while the convoy itself made an emergency starboard turn, the first of the convoy's three emergency changes of course.
		While USS Ranger (CV-4), USS Wasp (CV-7), and the recently commissioned USS Hornet (CV-8) remained in the Atlantic, Yorktown departed Norfolk on 16 December 1941 and sailed for the Pacific, her secondary gun galleries studded with new 20-millimeter Oerlikon machine guns.
	www.news.navy.mil /navydata/navy_legacy.asp?id=14 (5734 words)

	USS SOMERS, DD-947/DDG-34 A page dedicated to the USS Somers, DD-947 and DDG-34 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I served on the Somers from January of 1981, until she was decommissioned in November of 1982.
		In the beautiful lines of her, in her speed and roughness, in the curious gallantry she is completely a ship, in the old sense.
		Upon return from Westpac, we were preparing for more local operations, when we were informed that the Somers was to be decommissioned.
	tortuga.nomoss.com /somers (522 words)

	United States Navy Article, UnitedStatesNavy Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		USS Thresher — sunk in anaccident in 1963
		USS Pueblo — intelligence vessel captured by North Korea.
		USS Merrimac — a wooden warship rebuilt by the Confederates as the ironclad CSS Virginia
	www.anoca.org /uss/war/united_states_navy.html (2349 words)

	History of USS MULLINNIX DD-944 - The Forrest Shermans
		The USS Hull DD-945 was the last 'all-gun' Destroyer in the Pacific - decommissioned in 1982.
		TRANSFER OF EX-U.S.S. (a) Transfer.--The Secretary of the Navy may transfer the decommissioned destroyer ex-U.S.S. Forrest Sherman (DD-931) to the USS Forrest Sherman DD-931 Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization under the laws of the State of Maryland, subject to the submission of a donation application for that vessel that is satisfactory to the Secretary.
		The 1st week of Feb 2003 she was moored next to the USS Des Moines with tow lines on her.
	www.ussmullinnix.org /TheForrestShermans.html (832 words)

	USS Jouett DD 396
		Four of these mounts proved too much for destroyers, however, and two mounts were removed (the B mount replaced by a single gun) to improve stability as new equipment was added during the war.
		USS Porter was sunk by a Japanese submarine, and USS Warrington foundered in a Bahamas hurricane.
		USS Porter (DD-356), USS Selfridge (DD-357), USS McDougal (DD-358), USS Winslow (DD-359), USS Phelps (DD-360), USS Clark (DD-361), USS Moffett (DD-362), USS Balch (DD-363), USS Somers (DD-381), USS Warrington (DD-383), USS Sampson (DD-394), USS Davis (DD-395), and USS Jouett (DD-396)
	www.ussjouett.com /dd396.htm (183 words)

	Somers
		The second Somers was launched by the New York Navy Yard on 16 April 1842, and was commissioned on 12 May 1842, Comdr.
		The Illustrated London News for 23 January 1847 depicts the loss of USS Somers off Vera Cruz.
		Both Somers and her sister ship, Bainbridge, were lost at sea.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s15/somers-ii.htm (824 words)

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