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UNITED STATES NAVY (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

TORPEDO SHIPS

PAULDING destroyers

Perkins 1910

Burrows 1911

No Name Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
DD22, 4/1924- CG17, 10/1930- DD22 Paulding Bath Iron Wks 7/1909 12/4/1910 9/1910 Coast Guard cutter 4/1924, destroyer 10/1930, stricken 6/1934
DD23 Drayton, 7/1933- unnamed Bath Iron Wks 8/1908 22/8/1910 10/1910 stricken 3/1935
DD24, 6/1924- CG18, 10/1930- DD24 Roe Newport News 1/1909 24/7/1909 9/1910 Coast Guard cutter 6/1924, destroyer 10/1930, stricken 6/1934
DD25, 6/1924- CG19, 10/1930- DD25 Terry Newport News 2/1909 21/8/1909 10/1910 Coast Guard cutter 6/1924, destroyer 10/1930, stricken 6/1934
DD26 Perkins, 11/1933- unnamed Fore River, Quincy 3/1909 9/7/1910 11/1910 stricken 3/1935
DD27 Sterett Fore River, Quincy 3/1909 12/5/1910 12/1910 stricken 3/1935
DD28, 6/1924- CG14, 10/1930- DD28 McCall New York SB, Camden 6/1909 4/6/1910 1/1911 Coast Guard cutter 6/1924, destroyer 10/1930, stricken 6/1934
DD29, 4/1924- CG10, 5/1931- DD29 Burrows New York SB, Camden 6/1909 23/6/1910 2/1911 Coast Guard cutter 4/1924, destroyer 5/1931, stricken 7/1934
DD30 Warrington Cramp, Philadelphia 6/1909 18/6/1910 3/1911 stricken 3/1935
DD31 Mayrant Cramp, Philadelphia 4/1909 23/4/1910 7/1911 stricken 3/1935
  

Displacement normal, t

742

Displacement full, t

887

Length, m

88.1 wl 89.6 oa

Breadth, m

8.00

Draught, m

2.40

No of shafts

DD22 - 25, 28, 29: 3

DD26, 27, 30, 31: 2

Machinery

DD22 - 25, 28, 29: Parsons steam turbines, 4 Normand boilers

DD26, 27: Curtis steam turbines, 4 Normand boilers

DD30, 31: Zoelly steam turbines, 4 Normand boilers

Power, h. p.

DD22 - 25, 28, 29: 12000

DD26, 27, 30, 31: 10000

Max speed, kts

DD22 - 25, 28, 29: 29.5

DD26, 27, 30, 31: 28

Fuel, t

oil 180 - 230

Armament

5 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 2/3/5/6, 3 x 2 - 450 TT

Complement

86

Ship project history: Improved Smith class, completely seaworthy destroyers for the high sea, considerable exceeded in this respect all the older American torpedo ships. They differed from predecessors by using of twin TTs. Some had seldom applied triple-shaft machinery. DD24-27, 30 and 31 had three funnels and others four.

Modernizations: 1915, Mayrant: Zoelly steam turbines were replaced by Westinghouse geared steam turbines (13000 hp)

1917 - 1918, all: + 1 DCT (Y-gun), 2 DCR

Naval service: No significant events.

Mayrant 1911

 

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