SAMUEL GOMPERS (AD 37) Class

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USS Samuel Gompers (AD 37) on date. The single 5-inch gun was removed in 1977.
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Class: SAMUEL GOMPERS (AD 37)
Design: SCB Project No. 244, which became SCB Proj. No. 700.FY in FY1965, making AD 38 SCB Project 700.65.
Displacement (tons): 13,458 light, 20,132 full (AD 37)
Dimensions (feet): 645' oa, 620' wl x 85' e/wl x 28' max nav.
Original Armament: 1-5"/38
Later Armaments: (1977) 4-20mm
Complement: 136 officers, 1,671 enlisted (AD 37)
Speed (kts.): ##.#
Propulsion (HP): #,###
Machinery: Turbines, 1 screw

Construction:

AD	Name	Ord	Builder	Keel	Launch	Comm
37	SAMUEL GOMPERS	31 Oct 1963	NSY Puget Sound	9 Jul 1964	14 May 1966	1 Jul 1967
38	PUGET SOUND	29 Dec 1964	NSY Puget Sound	15 Feb 1965	16 Sep 1966	27 Apr 1968
39	unnamed	--	--	--	--	--
40	unnamed	--	--	--	--	--

Disposition:

AS	Name	T	Decomm	Strike	Disposal	Fate	MA Sale/Depart
38	SAMUEL GOMPERS		27 Oct 1995	7 Apr 1999	22 Jul 2003	Target	--
38	PUGET SOUND		27 Jan 1996	13 Dec 2007	11 Jan 2008	Navy sale	--
39	unnamed		--	--	11 Dec 1965	Canc	--
40	unnamed		--	--	27 Mar 1969	Canc	--

Class Notes:
AD 37-38 and their later near-sisters, AD 41-44, were decommissioned in 1994-1996 after the Navy abandoned the use of forward deployed tenders to support operating forces.

Ship Notes:

AD	Name	MA	Notes
37	SAMUEL GOMPERS		FY 1964. Sank on 22 Jul 2003 just after midnight after hits by 16 Harpoon missiles and other ordnance and aircraft bombs.
38	PUGET SOUND		FY 1965. Dismantlement completed 3 Mar 2009, Brownsville, TX.
39	unnamed		FY 1966. Deferred.
40	unnamed		FY 1969. Repeat of the FY65 ship, cancelled to cover overruns in FY 1969 and 1970. Also in FY 1973, authorized to be built but never awarded and authorization cancelled 1 Apr 1974.