Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Royal Navy — Destroyer class

Wickes-class destroyer

Wickes class

The class in numbers

  • 111 Completed
  • 9 Lost

Design and service

Type
Destroyer
Navies
Royal Navy 56
United States Navy 33
Royal Norwegian Navy 8
Royal Canadian Navy 7
Built
1917–21
In commission
1918–46 (USN)
Preceded by
Caldwell-class destroyer
Succeeded by
Clemson-class destroyer
Operators
Canada, Netherlands
Builders
  • Bath Iron Works, ME
  • Charleston Naval Shipyard, SC
  • Bethlehem Steel Co.
  • Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, MA
  • Union Iron Works, San Francisco Shipyard, CA
  • Mare Island Naval Shipyard, CA
  • New York Ship, NJ
  • Newport News, VA
  • William Cramp & Sons, PA
Subclasses
Little (52 ships), Lamberton (11 ships), Tattnall (10 ships)

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, standard
1,154 long tons (1,173 t)
Displacement, full load
1,247 long tons (1,267 t)
Length
95.71 m (314 ft)
Speed
35.3 knots (65.4 km/h, 40.6 mph)
Complement
100
Main gun
102 mm (4 in)
Armament
  • 4 × 4 in/50 caliber guns
  • 1 × 3 in/23 caliber AA gun
  • 4 × triple 21 in torpedo tubes

Roster

Holding 104 of the 111 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 Annapolis (I04) I04 1919 Scrapped 1945
HMCS Caldwell (I20) I20 1919 Transferred 1943
HMCS Chelsea (I35) I35 1919 Transferred 1949
HMCS Columbia (I49) I49 1919 Scrapped 1945
HMCS Georgetown (I40) I40 1919 Transferred 1949
HMCS Hamilton (I24) I24 1919 1945
HMCS Leamington (G19) G19 1919 Scrapped 1951
HMCS Lincoln (G42) G42 1918 Transferred 1952
HMCS Mansfield (G76) G76 1918 Transferred 1942
HMCS Montgomery (G95) G95 1918 Scrapped 1945
HMCS Niagara (I57) I57 1919 Scrapped 1946
HMCS Richmond (G88) G88 1918 Transferred 1949
HMCS Salisbury (I52) I52 1919 Scrapped 1944
HMCS St. Clair (I65) I65 1919 Scrapped 1946
HMS Bath (I17) I17 1919 Sunk 1941
HMS Brighton (I08) I08 1919 Transferred 1949
HMS Caldwell (I20) I20 1919 Transferred 1943
HMS Campbeltown (I42) I42 1919 1942
HMS Castleton (I23) I23 1919 Scrapped 1947
HMS Charlestown (I21) I21 1919 Scrapped 1947
HMS Chelsea (I35) I35 1919 Transferred 1949
HMS Georgetown (I40) I40 1919 Transferred 1949
HMS Hamilton (I24) I24 1919 1945
HMS Lancaster (G05) G05 1918 Scrapped 1947
HMS Leamington (G19) G19 1919 Scrapped 1951
HMS Lincoln (G42) G42 1918 Transferred 1952
HMS Mansfield (G76) G76 1918 Transferred 1942
HMS Montgomery (G95) G95 1918 Scrapped 1945
HMS Newark (G08) G08 1918 Scrapped 1947
HMS Newmarket (G47) G47 1918 Scrapped 1945
HMS Newport (G54) G54 1918 Transferred 1942
HMS Richmond (G88) G88 1918 Transferred 1949
HMS Roxborough (I07) I07 1919 Transferred 1949
HMS Salisbury (I52) I52 1919 Scrapped 1944
HMS St. Albans (I15) I15 1919 Transferred 1949
HMS St. Mary’s (I12) I12 1919 Scrapped 1945
HMS Wells (I95) I95 1921 Scrapped 1945
HNLMS Campbeltown (I42) I42 1919 1942
HNoMS Bath (I17) I17 1919 Sunk 1941
HNoMS Lincoln (G42) G42 1918 Transferred 1952
HNoMS Mansfield (G76) G76 1918 Transferred 1942
HNoMS Newport (G54) G54 1918 Transferred 1942
HNoMS St. Albans (I15) I15 1919 Transferred 1949
Soviet destroyer Doblestnyi I07 1919 Transferred 1949
Soviet destroyer Dostoinyi DD-182 1919 Transferred 1949
Soviet destroyer Druzhny DD-143 1918 Transferred 1952
Soviet destroyer Zharki DD-167 1919 Transferred 1949
Soviet destroyer Zhivuchi G88 1918 Transferred 1949
Soviet destroyer Zhostki DD-168 1919 Transferred 1949
USS Aaron Ward (DD-132) DD-132 1919 Scrapped 1947
USS Abbot (DD-184) DD-184 1919 Scrapped 1947
USS Babbitt DD-128 1919 Scrapped 1946
USS Badger (DD-126) DD-126 1919 Scrapped 1945
USS Bagley (DD-185) DD-185 1919 Scrapped 1945
USS Barney (DD-149) DD-149 1919 Scrapped 1946
USS Bernadou DD-153 1919 Scrapped 1945
USS Biddle (DD-151) DD-151 1919 Scrapped 1946
USS Blakeley 1919 Scrapped 1945
USS Breckinridge DD-148 1919 Scrapped 1946
USS Chew 1918 1946
USS Claxton (DD-140) DD-140 1919 Scrapped 1944
USS Cole (DD-155) DD-155 1919 Scrapped 1947
USS Cowell (DD-167) DD-167 1919 Transferred 1949
USS Crane 1919 1946
USS Crosby DD-164 1919 Scrapped 1946
USS Crowninshield I35 1919 Transferred 1949
USS Dent 1918 1946
USS Dickerson 1919 Scuttled 1945
USS Du Pont (DD-152) DD-152 1919 Scrapped 1947
USS Ellis (DD-154) DD-154 1919 Scrapped 1947
USS Evans (DD-78) DD-78 1918 Transferred 1942
USS Fairfax G88 1918 Transferred 1949
USS Foote (DD-169) DD-169 1919 Transferred 1949
USS Greer 1918 Scrapped 1945
USS Hale (DD-133) DD-133 1919 Transferred 1943
USS Herbert 1919 Scrapped 1946
USS Hopewell (DD-181) DD-181 1919 Sunk 1941
USS J. Fred Talbott 1919 Scrapped 1946
USS Jacob Jones (DD-130) DD-130 1919 Sunk 1942
USS Kalk (DD-170) DD-170 1919 1945
USS Kennison DD-138 1919 Scrapped 1946
USS Kilty 1918 Scrapped 1946
USS Lea 1918 Scrapped 1946
USS Leary (DD-158) DD-158 1919 Sunk 1943
USS Maddox (DD-168) DD-168 1919 Transferred 1949
USS Philip (DD-76) DD-76 1918 Scrapped 1947
USS Rathburne (DD-113) DD-113 1918 Scrapped 1946
USS Ringgold (DD-89) DD-89 1918 Scrapped 1947
USS Robinson (DD-88) DD-88 1918 Scrapped 1945
USS Roper 1919 Scrapped 1946
USS Schenck 1919 Scrapped 1946
USS Schley (DD-103) DD-103 1918 Scrapped 1946
USS Sigourney (DD-81) DD-81 1918 Transferred 1942
USS Talbot (DD-114) DD-114 1918 Scrapped 1946
USS Tarbell DD-142 1918 Scrapped 1945
USS Tattnall (DD-125) DD-125 1919 Scrapped 1946
USS Thomas (DD-182) DD-182 1919 Transferred 1949
USS Tillman (DD-135) DD-135 1921 Scrapped 1945
USS Twiggs (DD-127) DD-127 1919 Scrapped 1951
USS Upshur (DD-144) DD-144 1918 Scrapped 1947
USS Ward 1918 Sunk 1944
USS Waters (DD-115) DD-115 1918 Scrapped 1946
USS Wickes (DD-75) DD-75 1918 Scrapped 1945
USS Yarnall (DD-143) DD-143 1918 Transferred 1952

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