USS Jeffers

History
United States
Name	Jeffers
Namesake	William N. Jeffers
Builder	Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Laid down	25 March 1942
Launched	26 August 1942
Commissioned	5 November 1942
Identification	DD-621
Reclassified	DMS-27, 15 November 1944
Decommissioned	23 May 1955
Stricken	1 July 1971
Fate	Sold 25 May 1973 and broken up for scrap
General characteristics
Class and type	Gleaves-class destroyer
Displacement	1,630 tons
Length	348 ft 3 in (106.15 m)
Beam	36 ft 1 in (11.00 m)
Draft	11 ft 10 in (3.61 m)
Propulsion	50,000 shp (37,000 kW); 4 boilers; 2 propellers
Speed	37.4 knots (69 km/h)
Range	6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	16 officers, 260 enlisted
Armament	5 × 5 in (127 mm) DP guns,   6 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) guns,   6 × 20 mm (0.79 in) AA guns, 2 × quintuple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 10 Mark 15 torpedoes   2 × depth charge tracks ( depth charges)

USS Jeffers (DD-621/DMS-27), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Commodore William N. Jeffers.

Jeffers was laid down by Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, New Jersey, 25 March 1942 and launched on 26 August 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Lucie Jeffers Lyons, great-granddaughter of Commodore Jeffers. The ship was commissioned on 5 November 1942.