USS John Rodgers (DD-983)

USS John Rodgers (DD-983)

USS John Rodgers (DD-983), a Spruance-class destroyer, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the three generations of the Rodgers family who served in the Navy.

John Rodgers was laid down on August 12, 1976 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on March 18, 1978; sponsored by Mrs. Roy C. Smith, Jr., the great, great-granddaughter of Commodore John Rodgers; and commissioned on September 4, 1979.