Clemson-class destroyer

USS Clemson (DD-186)
Class overview
Name:	Clemson class
Builders:	Various
Operators:	United States Navy  United States Coast Guard  Royal Navy  Royal Canadian Navy  Soviet Navy  Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by:	Wickes class
Succeeded by:	Farragut class
Built:	1918–22
In service:	1919–48
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 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)

The Clemson class was a series of 156 destroyers which served with the United States Navy from after World War I through World War II.

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 and 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-decker 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."

As finally built, the Clemson class would be a fairly straightforward expansion of the Wickes-class destroyers. While the Wickes class had given good service there was a desire to build a class more tailored towards the anti-submarine role, and as such several design studies were completed, mainly about increasing the ships' range. These designs included a reduction in speed to between 26–28 knots (48–52 km/h; 30–32 mph) by eliminating two boilers, freeing up displacement for depth charges and more fuel. This proposal foreshadowed the destroyer escorts of World War II.

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