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USS HAMNER

(DD-718)

On the Way
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DD-718 Deployments - Major Events

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Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
APR 1945 Keel Date: 25 APR 1945
at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Port Newark
NOV 1945 Launch Date: 24 NOV 1945
JUL 1946 Commissioned: 12 JUL 1946
JUL 1956 - - - Shellback Initiation - 15 JUL 1956 - Pacific Ocean
AUG 1956 - AUG 1965 First American Military to visit Brisbane, Australia since 1947
SEP 1957 - Shellback Initiation - 24 SEP 1957 - Pacific Ocean
APR 1959 - Shellback Initiation - 22 APR 1959 - Pacific Ocean
JAN 1961 - DEC 1961 West Pac
JAN 1962 - DEC 1962 FRAM modernization - San Francisco Ship Yard
MAY 1963 - NOV 1963 West Pac-Viet Nam
JAN 1965 - JUL 1965 West Pac-Viet Nam
JUN 1966 - DEC 1966 West Pac-Viet Nam
JUN 1967 - JUL 1967 Russian Trawler - San Francisco, CA to Aleutian Is, Alaska
JUN 1967 - JUN 1967 Rose Festival - Portland, Oregon
OCT 1967 - MAR 1968 West Pac-Viet Nam
FEB 1968 - FEB 1968 Shellback Initiation - Pacific Ocean
MAY 1968 - OCT 1968 Dry Dock
NOV 1968 - DEC 1968 Underway Training
JUN 1969 - NOV 1969 West Pac-Viet Nam
SEP 1970 - MAR 1971 West Pac-Viet Nam
SEP 1970 - Shellback Initiation - 20 SEP 1970 - Pacific Ocean
SEP 1970 - - - Shellback Initiation - 20 SEP 1970 - Pacific Ocean
JAN 1972 - SEP 1972 West Pac-Viet Nam
MAY 1973 - JAN 1979 Transfer to Reserve Fleet
MAY 1974 - JAN 1979 Transfer to Reserve Fleet
OCT 1979 - OCT 1979 Decommisioning

DD-718 General Specifications

Class: Gearing-class destroyer

Named for: Henry Rawlings Hamner

Complement: 336 Officers and Enlisted

Displacement: 3460 tons

Length: 390 feet 6 inches

Beam: 40 feet 10 inches

Flank Speed: 35 knots

Range: 4 500 Nautical Miles

Final Disposition:Sold to Taiwan 17 December 1980