United States Navy — Destroyer class
Sampson-class destroyer
Sampson class
The class in numbers
- 6 Completed
- 6 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1915–1917
- In commission
- 1916–1945
- Preceded by
- Tucker-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Caldwell-class destroyer
- Operators
- United States
- Builders
- Fore River Shipbuilding, MA(2)
- Bath Iron Works, ME (2)
- William Cramp & Sons, PA (1)
- Mare Island Navy Yard, CA (1)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,111 long tons (1,129 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,225 long tons (1,245 t)
- Length
- 96.01 m (315 ft)
- Speed
- 29.5 knots (54.6 km/h, 33.9 mph)
- Complement
- 99
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 4 in/50 caliber guns
- 2 × 1-pounder (37 mm) AA guns
- 4 × triple 21 in torpedo tubes
- 1 × Depth charge track (aft)
- 1 × Y-gun depth charge launcher
Roster
Holding 1 of the 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Allen (DD-66) | DD-66 | 1917 | Scrapped 1946 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Sampson-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.