Royal Navy — Destroyer class
Caldwell-class destroyer
Caldwell class
The class in numbers
- 6 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- Built
- 1916–20
- In commission
- 1917–45
- Preceded by
- Sampson-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Wickes-class destroyer
- Builders
- Mare Island Navy Yard
- Norfolk Navy Yard
- Seattle Dry Dock Company
- William Cramp & Sons
- Bath Iron Works
- Subclasses
- Town-class destroyer
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,020 long tons (1,036 t)
- Length
- 96.01 m (315 ft) OA
- Speed
- 32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
- Complement
- 146
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 4 in/50 caliber guns
- 1 × 3 in/23 caliber gun
- 12 × 21 in torpedo tubes (4 × 3)
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Leeds (G27) | G27 | 1918 | Scrapped 1947 |
| HMS Lewes (G68) | G68 | 1918 | Scuttled 1946 |
| HMS Ludlow (G57) | G57 | 1917 | 1945 |
| USS Conner (DD-72) | DD-72 | 1918 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Craven (DD-70) | DD-70 | 1918 | Scuttled 1946 |
| USS Stockton (DD-73) | DD-73 | 1917 | 1945 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Caldwell-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.