HMS Ludlow (G57)
Service
- as USS Stockton26 November 1917 — 23 October 1940418 days of the war
- as HMS Ludlow23 October 1940 — June 19451,709 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Ludlow
- Pennant / hull number
- G57
- Builder
- William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
- Laid down
- 16 October 1916
- Launched
- 17 July 1917
- Commissioned
- 26 November 1917
- Decommissioned
- 26 June 1922
- Recommissioned
- 16 August 1940
- Struck
- 8 January 1941
- Fate
- Beached 15 July 1945
Destroyed as target (1945) - Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,020 long tons (1,036 t)
- Length
- 96.01 m (315 ft)
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Draught
- 2.44 m (8 ft)
- Speed
- 30 knots (55.6 km/h, 34.5 mph)
- Complement
- 128
- Main gun
- 152 mm (6 in)
(Destroyer No. 73: dp. 1,125 (n.) ;l. 315'6"; b. 31'2- "; dr. 8'V 2 "; s. 30.12 k. (tl.) ; cpl. 128;. a. 4 4", 2 1-pdr., 12 21" tt.; cl. Caldwell )
Robert Field Stockton, born on 20 August 1795 at Princeton, N.J., entered the United States Navy as a midshipman in 1811. During the War of 1812, he served with distinction on board a frigate, President, and later ashore defending Washington and Baltimore. After the war, Stockton served in the Mediterranean Squadron, operating against Barbary pirates in waters off the west coast of Africa, suppressing the slave trade, and in the Caribbean fighting buccaneers. He commanded Erie and Alligator between 1820 and 1822. Stockton left active duty in 1828 to become involved in the Delaware & Raritan Canal Co.
Returning to active duty in 1838 with the rank of captain, Stockton assumed command of ship-of-the-line Ohio. He declined President Tyler's offer to appoint him Secretary of the Navy in 1841 and instead worked with John Ericsson on the construction of the Navy's first screw warship Princeton; and, in 1843, he became her first commander. In 1845, he was chosen by the President to convey the United States government's annexation resolution to the government of Texas.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Stockton II (Destroyer No. 73)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- White-Forster boilers
- Parsons turbines
- three shafts
- 18500 hp
- Armament
- 4 × 4 in 21-pdr guns
- 1 × 6 in Y-gun
- 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Ludlow (G57) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Stockton II (Destroyer No. 73) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — Official U.S. Navy photo NH 43115 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons