USS Litchfield
Service
- as Litchfield12 May 1920 — 5 November 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS Litchfield
- Namesake
- John Litchfield
- Builder
- Mare Island Naval Shipyard
- Laid down
- 15 January 1919
- Launched
- 12 August 1919
- Commissioned
- 12 May 1920
- Decommissioned
- 5 November 1945
- Struck
- 28 November 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 29 March 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,215 long tons (1,234 t)
- Length
- 95.71 m (314 ft)
- Beam
- 9.14 m (30 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 35 knots (64.8 km/h, 40.3 mph)
- Range
- 4,900 nmi (9,075 km)
- Complement
- 126
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
USS Litchfield was a Clemson-class destroyer, operated by the United States Navy. The ship was named after John Litchfield. Mare Island Naval Shipyard laid her keel on 15 January 1919. Launched on 12 August 1919, she entered service on 12 May 1920.
Her class ran to 84 ships. 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 9.1 m (30 ft). Her designed speed was 35 knots, and she carried a complement of 126.
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 5 November 1945. She was struck from the register on 28 November 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 29 March 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 26500 shp
- Geared turbines
- 2 screws
- Armament
- 4 × 4 in/50 guns
- 1 × 3 in/25 gun
- 12 × 21 in 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 Litchfield on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy — Official U.S. Navy photo NH 67612 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons