this week we have unarmored warships for the blog. these are the flush deck, four pipe destroyers of the Caldwell, Wickes and Clemson class all built between 1916 and 1922 and designed to operate with the armored fleet. altogether there were 272 of all three classes built. they served from WW1 until WW2 was over. they served in the US Navy, the Royal Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Soviet Navy. they were used mostly as destroyers but some were converted to fast minelayers, fast minesweepers and fast attack transports. a few were scrapped between the wars but most served in one way or another. these useful little vessels were all between 308 and 314 ft. long and displaced between a little over 1,000t. to a little over 1,300t. depending on horsepower they all steamed at a top speed of 30-35.5kts. the little ships were powered by two geared steam turbines running on 300psi unsuperheated steam. the main gun battery was four 4" naval rifles, one 3" anti-aircraft gun, assorted machine guns and twelve 21" torpedo tubes. first picture is USS Pope making high speed and lots of smoke{not desirable}. next is USS Paul Jones at anchor and third is a close up of one of the 4" 50 main battery rifles. fourth we have a picture of the crew of USS Wickes just before handover to the British Royal Navy at Halifax, Nova Scotia. finally a picture of several of the destroyers in laid up condition between the wars.
this week we have unarmored warships for the blog. these are the flush deck, four pipe destroyers of the Caldwell, Wickes and Clemson class all built between 1916 and 1922 and designed to operate with the armored fleet. altogether there were 272 of all three classes built. they served from WW1 until WW2 was over. they served in the US Navy, the Royal Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Soviet Navy. they were used mostly as destroyers but some were converted to fast minelayers, fast minesweepers and fast attack transports. a few were scrapped between the wars but most served in one way or another. these useful little vessels were all between 308 and 314 ft. long and displaced between a little over 1,000t. to a little over 1,300t. depending on horsepower they all steamed at a top speed of 30-35.5kts. the little ships were powered by two geared steam turbines running on 300psi unsuperheated steam. the main gun battery was four 4" naval rifles, one 3" anti-aircraft gun, assorted machine guns and twelve 21" torpedo tubes. first picture is USS Pope making high speed and lots of smoke{not desirable}. next is USS Paul Jones at anchor and third is a close up of one of the 4" 50 main battery rifles. fourth we have a picture of the crew of USS Wickes just before handover to the British Royal Navy at Halifax, Nova Scotia. finally a picture of several of the destroyers in laid up condition between the wars.
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