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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. In 1923, while enroute from Puget Sound to San Diego, her squadron encountered heavy fog off the coast of California, and seven ships ran aground (in the Honda Point Disaster). Somers averted disaster by executing an emergency turn and rescued survivors the following day when the fog lifted.

General Characteristics

• Displacement: 1215 tons standard, 1308 tons full load
• Length: 314.4 ft (96 m)
• Beam: 31 ft (9.4 m)
• Draft: 9.3 ft (2.8 m)
• Armament
  • four 4 in (102 mm) 50 caliber guns
  • one 3 in (76 mm) 23 caliber anti-aircraft gun
  • four 21 in (533 mm) triple torpedo tubes
• Complement: 8 Officers, 8 Chief Petty Officers, 106 Enlisted
• Propulsion: 4 Boilers, 2 Westinghouse Geared Turbines, 27,600 horsepower (21 MW)
• Speed: 35.5 knots (66 km/h)