United States Navy — Destroyer class
Clemson-class destroyer
Clemson class
The class in numbers
- 162 Planned
- 156 Completed
- 6 Cancelled
- 20 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navies
- United States Navy 48
Royal Navy 31
Royal Canadian Navy 5 - Built
- 1918–1922
- Preceded by
- Wickes-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Farragut-class destroyer (1934)
- Operators
- United States, Canada
- Builders
- Bethlehem
- Fore River Shipyard, MA (10)
- Squantum Victory Yard, MA (35)
- San Franscisco, CA (40)
- William Cramp & Sons, PA (25)
- New York Ship, NY (20)
- Newport News Shipbuilding, VA (14)
- Mare Island Naval Shipyard, CA (6)
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard, VA (3)
- Bath Iron Works, ME (3)
- 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
- 1,215 long tons (1,234 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,308 long tons (1,329 t)
- Length
- 95.71 m (314 ft)
- Speed
- 35.5 knots (65.7 km/h, 40.9 mph)
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 4-inch/50 caliber guns (102 mm)
- 1 × 3-inch/23 caliber gun (76 mm) (anti-aircraft)
- 12 × 21-inch torpedo tubes (4 × 3) (533 mm)
Roster
Holding 84 of the 156 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMCS Buxton (H96) | H96 | 1919 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMCS St. Croix (I81) | I81 | 1919 | Sunk 1943 |
| HMCS St. Francis (I93) | I93 | 1919 | Sunk 1945 |
| HMS Belmont (H46) | H46 | 1919 | Sunk 1942 |
| HMS Beverley (H64) | H64 | 1920 | Sunk 1943 |
| HMS Bradford (H72) | H72 | 1919 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Broadwater (H81) | H81 | 1920 | Sunk 1941 |
| HMS Broadway (H90) | H90 | 1920 | Scrapped 1947 |
| HMS Burnham (H82) | H82 | 1919 | Scrapped 1947 |
| HMS Burwell (H94) | H94 | 1919 | Scrapped 1947 |
| HMS Buxton (H96) | H96 | 1919 | Scrapped 1946 |
| HMS Cameron (I05) | I05 | 1919 | Scrapped 1940 |
| HMS Chesterfield (I28) | I28 | 1921 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMS Churchill (I45) | I45 | 1920 | Sunk 1945 |
| HMS Clare (I14) | I14 | 1919 | Scrapped 1947 |
| HMS Ramsey (G60) | G60 | 1919 | Scrapped 1947 |
| HMS Reading (G71) | G71 | 1919 | Scrapped 1945 |
| HMS Ripley (G79) | G79 | 1919 | Scrapped 1945 |
| HMS Rockingham (G58) | G58 | 1919 | Sunk 1944 |
| HMS Sherwood (I80) | I80 | 1919 | Scrapped 1945 |
| HMS Stanley (I73) | I73 | 1919 | Sunk 1941 |
| Soviet destroyer Dejatelny | I45 | 1920 | Sunk 1945 |
| USS Abel P. Upshur | DD-193 | 1919 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Alden | 1919 | Scrapped 1945 | |
| USS Aulick (DD-258) | DD-258 | 1919 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Bailey (DD-269) | DD-269 | 1919 | Scrapped 1945 |
| USS Bainbridge (DD-246) | DD-246 | 1921 | Scrapped 1945 |
| USS Barker | 1919 | 1945 | |
| USS Barry (DD-248) | DD-248 | 1920 | Sunk 1945 |
| USS Belknap (DD-251) | DD-251 | 1919 | Scrapped 1945 |
| USS Borie (DD-215) | DD-215 | 1920 | Scuttled 1943 |
| USS Branch (DD-197) | DD-197 | 1920 | Sunk 1943 |
| USS Broome | 1919 | 1946 | |
| USS Bulmer | 1920 | Scrapped 1947 | |
| USS Clemson (DD-186) | DD-186 | 1919 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Dahlgren (DD-187) | DD-187 | 1920 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Dallas (DD-199) | DD-199 | 1920 | 1945 |
| USS Decatur (DD-341) | DD-341 | 1922 | Scrapped 1945 |
| USS Edsall (DD-219) | DD-219 | 1920 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Edwards (DD-265) | DD-265 | 1919 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Fox (DD-234) | DD-234 | 1920 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS George E. Badger | 1920 | Transferred 1934 | |
| USS Goff | 1921 | Scrapped 1945 | |
| USS Goldsborough (DD-188) | DD-188 | 1920 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Henshaw | 1919 | Scrapped 1930 | |
| USS Herndon (DD-198) | DD-198 | 1920 | Sunk 1945 |
| USS Hulbert | 1920 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| USS Humphreys | 1920 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| USS Hunt (DD-194) | DD-194 | 1920 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS John D. Edwards | 1920 | Scrapped 1945 | |
| USS John D. Ford | 1920 | Scrapped 1947 | |
| USS King (DD-242) | DD-242 | 1920 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Laub (DD-263) | DD-263 | 1919 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Lawrence (DD-250) | DD-250 | 1921 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Litchfield | 1920 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| USS MacLeish | 1920 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| USS Mason (DD-191) | DD-191 | 1920 | Sunk 1941 |
| USS McCalla (DD-253) | DD-253 | 1919 | Sunk 1941 |
| USS McCormick | 1920 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| USS McFarland | 1920 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| USS McLanahan (DD-264) | DD-264 | 1919 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Meade (DD-274) | DD-274 | 1919 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Noa (DD-343) | DD-343 | 1921 | Sunk 1944 |
| USS Osmond Ingram | 1919 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| USS Overton | 1920 | Scrapped 1945 | |
| USS Parrott | 1920 | Scrapped 1947 | |
| USS Paul Jones (DD-230) | DD-230 | 1921 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Peary | 1920 | Sunk 1942 | |
| USS Pillsbury (DD-227) | DD-227 | 1920 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Pope (DD-225) | DD-225 | 1920 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Reuben James (DD-245) | DD-245 | 1920 | Sunk 1941 |
| USS Rodgers (DD-254) | DD-254 | 1919 | Scrapped 1945 |
| USS Sands (DD-243) | DD-243 | 1920 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Satterlee (DD-190) | DD-190 | 1919 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Shubrick (DD-268) | DD-268 | 1919 | Scrapped 1945 |
| USS Simpson (DD-221) | DD-221 | 1920 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Stewart (DD-224) | DD-224 | 1920 | Target 1946 |
| USS Sturtevant (DD-240) | DD-240 | 1920 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Swasey (DD-273) | DD-273 | 1919 | Sunk 1944 |
| USS Truxtun (DD-229) | DD-229 | 1920 | Sunk 1942 |
| USS Welborn C. Wood | I28 | 1921 | Scrapped 1948 |
| USS Welles (DD-257) | DD-257 | 1919 | Scrapped 1940 |
| USS Whipple (DD-217) | DD-217 | 1920 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Williamson | 1920 | Scrapped 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Clemson-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.