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USS ''Samuel Gompers'' (AD-37) was a Destroyer Tender , the first of its class, and designed to be a floating repair shop for ships of the U.S. Navy either in port or at sea. It was named for Samuel Gompers , a distinctive American labor leader during the late nineteenth Century.

The ''Gompers'' was 645 feet long, had a beam of 85 feet, and displaced over 20,000 tons fully loaded. Its keel was laid on 7 September 1964 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington State, and was launched 14 May 1966. It was commissioned into the Navy on 1 July 1967.

On 22 July 2003 , the ''Samuel Gompers'' was sunk in the Atlantic as part of a fleet training exercise (SINKEX).