USS Barker
Service
- 27 December 1919 — 18 July 19452,147 days of the war
- Name
- USS Barker
- Namesake
- Albert S. Barker
- Builder
- William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
- Laid down
- 30 April 1919
- Launched
- 11 September 1919
- Commissioned
- 27 December 1919
- Decommissioned
- 18 July 1945
- Struck
- 13 August 1945
- Fate
- Sold 30 November 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,215 long tons (1,234 t)
- Length
- 95.71 m (314 ft)
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Complement
- 132
USS Barker was a Clemson-class destroyer built for the United States Navy. The ship was named after Albert S. Barker. Her keel was laid at William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia on 30 April 1919. Launched on 11 September 1919, she entered service on 27 December 1919.
84 ships of the class were built. The class followed the Wickes-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Farragut-class destroyer (1934).
Displacement was 1,215 long tons. She measured 95.7 m (314 ft) long with a beam of 9.4 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 132.
Her main battery was four 102 mm (4.0 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,147 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 18 July 1945. She was struck from the register on 13 August 1945.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 26,500 shp (20 MW)
- geared turbines
- 2 screws
- Armament
- 4 x 102 mm guns, 1 x 76 mm gun, 12 x 21 inch (533 mm) Torpedoes.
Sister ships
- HMCS Buxton (H96)
- HMCS St. Croix (I81)
- HMCS St. Francis (I93)
- HMS Belmont (H46)
- HMS Beverley (H64)
- HMS Bradford (H72)
- HMS Broadwater (H81)
- HMS Broadway (H90)
- HMS Burnham (H82)
- HMS Burwell (H94)
- HMS Buxton (H96)
- HMS Cameron (I05)
- HMS Chesterfield (I28)
- HMS Churchill (I45)
- HMS Clare (I14)
- HMS Ramsey (G60)
- HMS Reading (G71)
- HMS Ripley (G79)
- HMS Rockingham (G58)
- HMS Sherwood (I80)
- HMS Stanley (I73)
- Soviet destroyer Dejatelny
- USS Abel P. Upshur
- USS Alden
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Barker on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: USN — Official U.S. Navy photograph 80-G-481351 , now in the collections of the National Archives, available at Navsource.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons