United States Navy — Destroyer class
Gridley-class destroyer
The class in numbers
- 4 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1935–1938
- In commission
- 1937–1946
- Preceded by
- Mahan-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Bagley-class destroyer
- Builders
- Bethlehem Fore River, MA
- Bethlehem San Francisco, CA
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,590 long tons (1,616 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,219 long tons (2,255 t)
- Length
- 103.63 m (340 ft)
- Speed
- 38.5 knots (71.3 km/h, 44.3 mph)
- Complement
- 158
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- As built:
- 4 × 5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber guns
- 4 × .50 caliber machine guns (12.7 mm)
- 16 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (4 × 4)
- 2 × Depth charge racks
- Circa 1943:
- 4 × 5 inch (127 mm)/38 caliber guns
- 7 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannon (0.8 in)
- 16 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (4 × 4)
- 4 × K-gun depth charge throwers
- 2 × Depth charge racks
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Craven (DD-382) | DD-382 | 1937 | 1947 |
| USS Gridley (DD-380) | DD-380 | 1937 | Scrapped 1947 |
| USS Maury (DD-401) | DD-401 | 1938 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS McCall (DD-400) | DD-400 | 1938 | Scrapped |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Gridley-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.