Allied Warships

USS Jeffers (DD 621)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassBristol 
PennantDD 621 
Built byFederal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down25 Mar 1942 
Launched26 Aug 1942 
Commissioned5 Nov 1942 
End service23 May 1955 
Loss position
 
History

Converted to High Speed Minesweeper DMS-27 15 November 1944.
Decommissioned 23 May 1955.
Reverted back to DD-621 15 July 1955.
Stricken 1 July 1971.
Sold 25 May 1973 and broken up for scrap.

 

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CommanderFromTo
Donald Brewster Ramage, USN
Hugh Quinn Murray, USN
1William Thomas McGarry, USN5 Nov 1942

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