U S NAVY 4th FLEET AT RECIFE - SHIP INDEX DD

25)DD 429 LIVERMORE

Photo. www.navsource.org  By Robert Hurst

CLASS - GLEAVES

Displacement: 2395 Tons (Full)

Launched August 3 1940 and commissioned October 7 1940.

Decommissioned January 24 1947.

Stricken July 19 1956.

Fate: Sold March 3 1961 to Potomac Shipwrecking Co., Pope's Creek, MD and broken up for scrap in August 1961.

Dimensions, 348' 4"(oa) x 36' 1" x 13' 2" (Max)

Armament 4 x 5"/38AA, 6 x 0.5" MG, 10 x 21" tt.(2x5).

Machinery, 50,000 SHP; Westinghouse Geared Turbines, 2 screws.

Speed, 35 Knots.

Range 6500 NM@ 12 Knots.

Crew 208.

The year 1943 began to DD 429 LIVERMORE on patrol duty off Recife, Brazil, and concluded with a series of five voyages from 14 April to 17 January 1944 between New York and Casablanca French Morocco.

Photo. www.navsource.org. By Darryl Baker. date and location unknown.

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