Clemson class destroyer (1930s)

The Clemson class was a series of 156 destroyers (6 more were cancelled and never begun) which served with the United States Navy from after World War I through World War II.

USS Barker in 1928
Class overview
Name	Clemson class
Builders	Various
Operators	United States Navy United States Coast Guard United Kingdom Navy Royal Canadian Navy Soviet Navy Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by	Wickes class
Succeeded by	Farragut class
Subclasses	Town class
Built	1918–1922
In service	1919–1948
Planned	162
Completed	156
Cancelled	6 (DD-200 to DD-205)
Lost	20
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1,215 tons (normal) 1,308 tons (full load)
Length	314 ft 4.5 in (95.822 m)
Beam	30 ft 11.5 in (9.436 m)
Draft	9 ft 4 in (2.84 m)
Propulsion	4 × boilers, 300 psi (2,100 kPa) saturated steam[1] 2 geared steam turbines 27,600 hp (20,600 kW) 2 shafts
Speed	35.5 knots (65.7 km/h)
Range	4,900 nmi (9,100 km) @ 15 kn (28 km/h)
Crew	8 officers 8 chief petty officers 106 enlisted
Armament	4 × 4 inch/50 caliber guns (102 mm) 1 × 3 inch/23 caliber gun (76 mm) (anti-aircraft) 12 × 21 inch torpedo tubes (4 × 3) (533 mm)[1]

The Clemson-class ships were commissioned by the United States Navy from 1919 to 1922, built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, New York Shipbuilding Corporation, William Cramp & Sons, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Bath Iron Works, some quite rapidly. The Clemson class was a minor redesign of the Wickes class for greater fuel capacity and was the last pre-World War II class of flush-deck destroyers to be built for the United States. Until the Fletcher-class destroyer, the Clemsons were the most numerous class of destroyers commissioned in the United States Navy and were known colloquially as "flush-deckers”, "four-stackers" or "four-pipers".