Tucker-class destroyer
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| Name: | Tucker-class destroyer |
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| Preceded by: | O'Brien class |
| Succeeded by: | Sampson class |
| Built: | 1914–1916 |
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| Planned: | 6 |
| Completed: | 6 |
| Lost: | 1 |
| Retired: | 5 |
| Scrapped: | 5 |
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| Type: | Destroyer |
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| Length: | 315 ft 3 in (96.09 m) (oa) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 6 in (9.30 m) [DD-57, -60, -62: 29 ft 11 in] |
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| Speed: | 29.5 knots (54.6 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 2,500 nautical miles at 20 knots (4,600 km at 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 99 |
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The Tucker class of destroyers was a ship class of six ships designed by and built for the United States Navy shortly before the United States entered World War I. The Tucker class was the fourth of five classes of destroyers that were known as the "thousand tonners", because they were the first U.S. destroyers over 1,000 long tons (1,016 t) displacement.
The design of what became the Tucker class was the result of compromises between the General Board of the United States Navy and the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair. The General Board, tasked with creating an integrated battle fleet, wanted a larger ship that could serve in a scouting role and proposed a ship larger than the unique British destroyer HMS Swift of 1907, and more than twice the displacement of any previous U.S. destroyer. Input from Construction and Repair resulted in a design that was an incremental development of the O'Brien class, which itself was similar to the first of the thousand tonners, the Cassin class (which displaced about a third more than the preceding Paulding class).
The ships were built by four private American shipyards—Bath Iron Works, Fore River Shipbuilding Company, New York Shipbuilding Corporation, and William Cramp and Sons—and were laid down between February and November 1914; launched between April and July 1915; and commissioned into the U.S. Navy between July 1915 and May 1916. The ships had a median displacement of 1,060 long tons (1,080 t), were just over 315 feet (96 m) in length, and had a beam of about 30 feet (9.1 m). Most of the ships had two direct-drive steam turbines and a single geared cruising turbine; Wadsworth was equipped with two geared steam turbines only and, as the first U.S. destroyer so equipped, greatly influenced later U.S. Navy destroyer designs. All of the ships were designed for a maximum speed of 29.5 knots (54.6 km/h) and a range of 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km) at more economical speeds. As built, they were armed with four 4-inch (10 cm) guns and had four twin 21-inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes with a load of eight torpedoes, but all were later equipped with depth charges.
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