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Allied Warships

USS Livermore (DD 429)

Destroyer of the Benson / Gleaves class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassBenson / Gleaves 
PennantDD 429 
Built byBath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down6 Mar, 1939 
Launched3 Aug, 1940 
Commissioned7 Oct, 1940 
End service24 Jan, 1947 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 24 January 1947.
Stricken 19 July 1956.
Sold 3 March 1961 and broken up for scrap in August 1961 by Potomac Shipwrecking Co., Pope's Creek, Maryland.  

Noteable events involving Livermore include:

11 Jul, 1942
USS Livermore and USS Mayo together pick up 32 survivors from the American merchant Santa Rita that was torpedoed and sunk on 9 July 1942 by the German submarine U-172 about 700 nautical miles north-east of Puerto Rico in position 26º11'N, 55º40'W.


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