Allied Warships

USS Rogers (DD 876)

Destroyer of the Gearing class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassGearing 
PennantDD 876 
Built byConsolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.) 
Ordered14 Jun 1943 
Laid down3 Jun 1944 
Launched20 Nov 1944 
Commissioned26 Mar 1945 
End service 
History

Decommissioned at an unknown date.
Stricken 1 October 1980.
Transferred to South Korea 25 July 1981 being renamed Jeong Ju.
Jeong Ju decommissioned 31 Dec 1999.

 

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1T/Cdr. Clare Brown Smiley, USN25 Mar 1945Aug 1946

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Media links


Destroyers of World War Two

Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers

Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.

Roscoe, Theodore


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