USS Bulmer
Service
- 16 August 1920 — 16 August 19462,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS Bulmer
- Namesake
- Roscoe Carlyle Bulmer
- Builder
- William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
- Laid down
- 11 August 1919
- Launched
- 22 January 1920
- Commissioned
- 16 August 1920
- Decommissioned
- 16 August 1946
- Struck
- 25 September 1946
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 19 February 1947 (1947)
- Status
- Scrapped
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
- 122
USS Bulmer was a Clemson-class destroyer, operated by the United States Navy. The ship was named after Roscoe Carlyle Bulmer. William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia laid her keel on 11 August 1919. She entered service on 16 August 1920, having been launched on 22 January 1920.
Her class ran to 84 ships. The class followed the Wickes-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Farragut-class destroyer (1934).
She displaced 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 122.
Her main battery was four 102 mm (4 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 16 August 1946. She was struck from the register on 25 September 1946.
She was broken up for scrap on 19 February 1947.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- geared turbines
- 2 screws
- 26,500 shp (20 MW)
- Armament
- 4 x 4 in guns, 1 x 3 in gun, 12 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
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 Bulmer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: USN — Official U.S. Navy photo 19-N-33043 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons