USS Rogers (DD-876)
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USS Rogers (DD-876) in 1973
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| Name: | USS Rogers |
| Namesake: | Jack Ellis Rogers Jr., Charles Ethbert Rogers, and Edward Keith Rogers, brothers killed in the Battle of Tassafaronga |
| Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down: | 3 June 1944 |
| Launched: | 20 November 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 26 March 1945 |
| Identification: | DD-876 |
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| Decommissioned: | 1 October 1980 |
| Struck: | 1 October 1980 |
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| Fate: | Transferred to South Korea, 25 July 1981 |
 South Korea
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| Name: | ROKS Jeong Ju |
| Acquired: | 11 August 1981 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 December 1999 |
| Identification: | DD-925 |
| Fate: | Museum ship |
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| Class and type: | Gearing-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 3,450 long tons (3,505 t) |
| Length: | 396 ft 8 in (121 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft 10 in (12 m) |
| Draft: | 18 ft 6 in (6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 600 psi steam turbine reduction gear |
| Speed: | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
| Complement: | 260 |
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USS Rogers (DD-876) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for three brothers — Jack Ellis Rogers Jr., Charles Ethbert Rogers, and Edward Keith Rogers — killed in action board USS New Orleans during the Battle of Tassafaronga in the Solomon Islands on 30 November 1942.
Rogers's keel was laid down on 3 June 1944 by Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas. The ship was launched on 20 November 1944, sponsored by the Mother, Mrs. Josie Viola Taylor Rogers, wife of Jack Ellis Rogers, Sr., and commissioned on 26 March 1945, Comdr. C. B. Smiley in command.
Following shakedown off Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Rogers was converted to a picket ship at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Virginia. After further training in the Atlantic and Caribbean, Rogers transited the Panama Canal and touched at San Diego before reaching Pearl Harbor on 4 August 1945.
With the termination of hostilities, Rogers departed Pearl Harbor on 17 August for Tokyo Bay where she arrived on 31 August via Eniwetok and Iwo Jima. On 1 September she stood out of Tokyo Bay to join a fast carrier task group and commence her routine duties as a member of the 7th Fleet. Through the decade she rotated to the Far East for duty with that fleet on a regular schedule, and in 1949 assisted in evacuating American nationals from China.
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