United States Navy — Destroyer class
Porter-class destroyer
Porter class
The class in numbers
- 8 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1933–1937
- In commission
- 1936–1950
- Preceded by
- Farragut-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Mahan-class destroyer
- Builders
- New York Shipbuilding, NJ (4)
- Bethlehem Fore River, MA (4)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,850 long tons (1,880 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,663 long tons (2,706 t)
- Length
- 116.13 m (381 ft)
- Speed
- 37 knots (68.5 km/h, 42.6 mph)
- Complement
- 206
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- As Built:
- 8 × 5-inch/38 caliber guns (127 mm) (4 × 2)
- 8 × 1.1-inch/75 caliber guns (28 mm) (2 × 4)
- 2 × .50 caliber machine guns (12.7 mm)
- 8 × 21 in torpedo tubes (2 × 4), 16 torpedoes
- 2 × Depth charge stern racks
- c. 1942:
- 8 × 5-inch/38 caliber guns (4 × 2)
- 2 × Bofors 40 mm guns (1 × 2)
- 6 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
- 8 × 21 inch torpedo tubes (2 × 4), 16 torpedoes
- 2 × Depth charge stern racks
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Balch (DD-363) | DD-363 | 1936 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Clark (DD-361) | DD-361 | 1936 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS McDougal (DD-358) | DD-358 | 1936 | 1949 |
| USS Moffett | 1936 | Scrapped 1947 | |
| USS Phelps | 1936 | Scrapped 1947 | |
| USS Porter (DD-356) | DD-356 | 1936 | Scuttled |
| USS Selfridge (DD-357) | DD-357 | 1936 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Winslow (DD-359) | DD-359 | 1937 | Scrapped 1959 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Porter-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.