USS Livermore (DD-429)

History

United States
Name:	Livermore
Namesake:	Samuel Livermore
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	6 March 1939
Launched:	3 August 1940
Commissioned:	7 October 1940
Decommissioned:	24 January 1947
Struck:	19 July 1956
Fate:	Sold 3 March 1961 for scrapping
General characteristics
Class and type:	Gleaves-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,630 tons
Length:	341 ft (104 m) waterline, 348 ft 3 in (106.15 m) overall
Beam:	36 ft (11 m)
Draft:	11 ft 9 in (3.58 m), 17 ft 3 in (207 in) full load
Propulsion:	Four Babcock & Wilcox boilers; General Electric SR geared turbines; 2 shafts; 50,000 shp (37,000 kW)
Speed:	37.5 kn (69.5 km/h; 43.2 mph)
Range:	6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	16 officers, 260 enlisted (war)
Armament:	5 × 5 in (130 mm) DP guns, 6 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) guns, 6 × 20 mm AA guns, 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 1 × depth charge projector 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Livermore (DD-429), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the 1st ship of the United States Navy to be named for Samuel Livermore, the first naval chaplain to be honored with a ship in his name.

Originally planned as Grayson, DD-429 was renamed Livermore 23 December 1938; laid down 6 March 1939 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched 3 August 1940; sponsored by Mrs. Everard M. Upjohn, a descendant of Chaplain Livermore; and commissioned 7 October 1940, Lieutenant Commander Vernon Huber in command.

Launched in the aftermath of the fall of France, Livermore, after a brief training period, was assigned 29 April 1941 to the neutrality patrol. With ships like the aircraft carrier Wasp and sister destroyers, she escorted as far as Iceland convoys bound for England. There ensued a shadowy undeclared war with Nazi wolfpacks. She was on convoy duty with the destroyer Kearny when the latter was torpedoed on 17 October. The hazards of this duty for Livermore also included a temporary grounding on 24 November during a storm and having a friendly battery on Iceland fire across the ship.

The attack on Pearl Harbor and full U.S. participation in World War II enlarged the scope of her actions. On 7 April 1942 Livermore departed New York for the first of many transatlantic escort missions. Completing her second voyage to Greenock, Scotland on 27 June, she began coastal patrol and convoy duty southward into the Caribbean.

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