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USS Hammerberg (DE1015)


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign:
N - C - R - V
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "College City"
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Navy Expeditionary Medal - National Defense Service Medal
Specifications:
Class: Dealey
Type: SCB No. 72 / 1952 - 53
Number in Class: 3
Displacement: 1,314 tons (light), 1,940 tons (full)
Length: 308' (wl), 314' 6" (oa)
Beam: 36' 0" (extreme)
Draft: 18' 10" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 De Laval geared turbine; 20,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27 kts
Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots
Complement: 12 / 161
Guns: 4 - 3"/50 (76mm) Mk33 Guns (2x2)
ASW Weapons: 1 Squid ASW mortar (none in DE 1015), 6 - 12.75" (324mm) Mk 32 torpedo tubes (2x3) / Mk 46 torpedoes
Radars: AN/SPS-5 (surface), AN/SPS-6C (air)
Sonars: AN/SQS-4
Fire Control Systems: Mk63 Gun FCS, Mk105 Underwater Battery FCS
Hammerberg (DE1015) Building and Operational Data:
  • 12 November 1953: Keel laid at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me.
  • 20 August 1954: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Moss, mother of Boatswain Hammerberg
  • 2 March 1955: Commissioned, Lcdr. Murray E. Draper in command
  • 14 December 1973: Decommissioned and Stricken
  • 18 June 1974: Sold for scrapping to the Union Minerals and Alloys Corp., New York, N.Y. for $65,141.00
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    Hammerberg 60k Owen Francis Patrick Hammerberg was born on 31 May 1920 in Daggett, Michigan. After enlisting in the Navy in July 1941 and receiving recruit training at Great Lakes, Illinois, he served on board USS Idaho (BB42) and USS Advent (AM83). Promoted to Coxswain in May 1943 and to Boatswain's Mate, Second Class, in October 1943, Hammerberg attended the Deep Sea Diving School at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington, DC, in 1944. He was then assigned to the Pacific Fleet Salvage Force. On 17 February 1945, during salvage operations in Pearl Harbor, he lost his life while heroically working to rescue two fellow divers. Boatswain's Mate Hammerberg was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at that time.

    USS Hammerberg (DE1015), 1955-1974, was the first ship named in his honor.

    (US Navy photo #NH101647 from the Naval History and Heritage Command)    		 Navsource
    Hammerberg 46k 1955, post commissioning Roger W. Kapes
    Hammerberg 84k circa 1957 (Official U.S. Navy Photo; From "Jane's Fighting Ships, 1958 - 59") Robert Hurst
    Hammerberg 253k March 1964: St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands (Photo by Ed Zajkowski) Ed Zajkowski
    Hammerberg 33k January 1971, entering Malta Harbor Roger W. Kapes
    Hammerberg 52k January 1971: Valleta, Malta - about to drop anchor Malta Harbor. Notice the trailers on the flight deck and fantail, ITASS in its early trial stage.
    ***Levy*** 79k 18 June 1974: the Dep't of Defense Bid List for the scrapping of ex-DE's 162, 180, 181, 1015, 1021, and 1022 (Levy, Trumpeter, Straub, Hammerberg, Courtney, and Lester). Ed Zajkowski
         and
    Tim Rizzuto
    Hammerberg Memorabilia
    Cover from the original
    commissioning program
    Hammerberg
    Courtesy of
    Roger W. Kapes
    View the USS Hammerberg (DE1015) DANFS history entry
    located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
    Hammerberg's Commanding Officers
    Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves
    02 March 1955 - 1956         Lcdr. Murray Edmond Draper
    1956 - 1958   Lcdr. Michael J. Doyle
    1958 - 1959   Lcdr. Avery Lee Willis
    1959 - 1960   Lcdr. Danis-James J. Downey (later Vadm)
    1960 - 1961   Lcdr. Paul Clinton Boyd (later Radm)
    1961 - 1963   Lcdr. Robert Francis Schniedwind
    1963 -July 1964   Lcdr. Lucien Capone Jr. (later Radm)
    July 1964 - July 1966   Lcdr. Thomas Edward Lukas
    July 1966 - 1967   Lcdr. Siras D. Browning
    1967 - 1969   Lcdr. James E.Tedder
    1969 - 1970   Lcdr. Robert Heber Ailes (later Radm)
    1970 - November 1971   Lcdr. Lawrence G. Anderson
    November 1971- 14 December 1973   Lcdr. William Earl Held Jr.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    2009 Reunion for all Newport Based Dealeys
    24 - 27 September 2009 at Norfolk VA
    Chairman: Marc Arsenault
    Address: 98 Oxbow Road / Charlton MA 01507
    Phone: (508) 248-5072
    E-mail: marc-a@charter.net
    or
    contact through Newport Dealey link below
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    Additional Resources
    USS Hammerberg DE 1015 Alumni Association
    Newport Dealeys.Com
    Home of the Newport Dealeys
    Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
    The Destroyer History Foundation
    Tin Can Sailors Shipmate Registry - USS Hammerberg
    USS Hammerberg page on Military.com
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