High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Semmes (DDG-18), named for Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes CSN (1809-1877), was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. Semmes was laid down by Avondale Marine Ways, Inc. at Avondale, Louisiana on 15 August 1960, launched on 20 May 1961 by Mrs. Felix Edward Hebert and commissioned on 10 December 1962. Following shakedown, Semmes joined Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 62, Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 6, at Charleston, South Carolina, in July 1963; and, into the summer of 1964, participated in various fleet exercises in the Atlantic and Caribbean.

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