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USS LIVERMORE (DD-429)

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign - NUNJ

CLASS - GLEAVES As Built.
Displacement 2395 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 348' 4"(oa) x 36' 1" x 13' 2" (Max)
Armament 4 x 5"/38AA, 6 x 0.5" MG, 10 x 21" tt.(2x5).
Machinery, 50,000 SHP; General Electric Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 35 Knots, Range 6500 NM@ 12 Knots, Crew 208.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath Me. March 6 1939.
Launched August 3 1940 and commissioned October 7 1940.
Decommissioned January 24 1947.
Stricken July 19 1956.
Fate Sold March 3 1961 to Potomac Shipwrecking Co., Pope's Creek, MD and broken up for scrap in August 1961.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
	20k	Samuel Livermore, the first naval chaplain to be thus honored, was born in Concord, N.H., 26 August 1786. Graduating from Harvard in 1804, he practiced law in Boston, Mass. During the War of 1812 he served as acting Chaplain in Chesapeake and was wounded and captured in her engagement with HMS Shannon in June 1813. Released from prison at Halifax, Nova Scotia, he served as purser in various Navy ships, including brig Spark in the Mediterranean In 1815 during the brief war with Algiers. He left the Navy in 1816, practiced law in Baltimore and New Orleans, and died 11 July 1833 at Florence, Ala., en route. to New England.	Bill Gonyo
	175k	Launching at Bath Iron Works, 03 August 1940.	Dave Wright
	101k	Undated, location unknown.	-
	174k	Undated, location unknown.	Darryl Baker
	62k	USS Livermore (DD-429) anchored off New York Navy Yard, 24 September 1943. National Archives photo 19-N-53744	Robert Hurst/Mike Green
	71k	Livermore comes alongside USS Card (CVE-11) while crossing the Atlantic for duty in the Mediterranean, 09 February 1944. National Archives photo 80-G-218107	Robert Hurst
	71k	USS Livermore off New York Navy Yard on 07 December 1944. She has just completed a refit and is camouflaged in Measure 32/3D scheme. National Archives photo 80-G-290566	Mike Green
1944 Christmas menu and crew listing.			Susan McCauslin
0542913	124k	Livermore aground on Bearse Shoal a mile off Monomoy Point, south of Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 30 July 1949. On a trainig cruise, Livermore was refloated the next day and headed to Boston. Note the USCG 180' buoy tender in the background.	Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET. / Darryl Baker
	113k	In mothballs at Boston, 1955.	Ed Zajkowski

USS LIVERMORE DD-429 History
View This Vessels DANFS History entry at the Naval History & Heritage Command website

Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves


CDR Vernon Huber    Oct 7 1940 - Dec 4 1942

CDR Harry Edward Seidel Jr.    Dec 4 1942 - Nov 8 1944

CDR Kerfoot Bainbridge Smith    Nov 8 1944 - May 24 1946

LCDR Carl August Sander Jr.    May 24 1946 - Sep 15 1946

LT Merle Eugene Weedlun    Sep 15 1946 - Jan 24 1947

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Sam Reynolds
Address: 320 Dreher Road, Box 2, W. Columbia, SC 29169
Phone: (803)796-8020
E-mail: None

Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.

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Tin Can Sailors Website
Destroyer History Foundation
Official U.S.Navy Destroyer Website

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