United States Navy — Destroyer class
Somers-class destroyer
Somers class
The class in numbers
- 5 Completed
- 1 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- United States Navy
- Built
- 1935–1939
- In commission
- 1937–1945
- Preceded by
- Bagley-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Benham-class destroyer
- Builders
- Federal Shipbuilding, NJ (2)
- Bath Iron Works, ME (3)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,840 long tons (1,870 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,767 long tons (2,811 t)
- Length
- 116.13 m (381 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Complement
- 235
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- As built:
- 4 × twin 5 in/38 caliber guns
- 2 × quad 1.1 in/75 caliber guns
- 2 × .50 caliber machine guns (12.7 mm)
- 3 × quad 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 12 torpedoes
- 2 × Depth charge stern racks
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Davis (DD-395) | DD-395 | 1938 | 1947 |
| USS Jouett (DD-396) | DD-396 | 1939 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Sampson (DD-394) | DD-394 | 1938 | Scrapped 1946 |
| USS Somers (DD-381) | DD-381 | 1937 | Transferred |
| USS Warrington (DD-383) | DD-383 | 1938 | Sunk 1944 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Somers-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.