CLEMSON CLASS DESTROYER

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 New York Shipbuilding Corporation and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, some with alarming speed. The ''Clemson'' class was a redesign of the ''Wickes'' class, and was the last pre-WWII class of flush-decker destroyers to be built for the United States.

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History

Ships in class

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History

Fourteen ships of the class were involved in the Honda Point Disaster in 1923, of which seven were lost.
Most never saw wartime service, as many were decommissioned in 1930 and scrapped as part of the London Naval Treaty.
Nineteen were transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940 as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement where they became part of the Town class. Others were upgraded or converted to highspeed transports or seaplane tenders and served through World War II.

Ships in class

The following vessels were built as part of the ''Clemson'' class:

'Hull no.'	'Ship name'	'Commissioned'	'Decommissioned'	'Fate'	'Service notes'
DD186	''Clemson''	19 December 1919	12 October 1945	Sold	Redesignated AVP-17, APD-4, and APD-31
DD187	''Dahlgren''	6 January 1920	12 December 1945	Sold	Redesignated AG-91
DD188	''Goldsborough''	20 January 1920	11 October 1945	Scrapped	Redesignated AVP-18, APD-5, APD-32
DD189	''Semmes''	21 February 1920	2 June 1946	Scrapped	Redesignated AG-24; Served with the Coast Guard as CG-20
DD190	''Satterlee''	23 December 1919	8 October 1940	Sunk	Served with the Royal Navy as HMS Belmont, sunk 31 January 1942
DD191	''Mason''	28 February 1920	31 March 1922	Sunk	Served with the Royal Navy as HMS Broadwater, torpedoed and sunk by U-101 18 October 1941 Lt. John Stanley Parker, RNVR was the first American killed in action whilst serving with the Royal Navy.
DD192	''Graham''	13 March 1920	31 March 1922	Scrapped
DD193	''Abel P. Upshur''	19 July 1919	23 September 1940	Scrapped	Served with the Coast Guard as CG-15 and Royal Navy as HMS Clare, scrapped 1945
DD194	''Hunt''	30 September 1920	8 October 1940	Scrapped	Served with the Coast Guard as CG-18 and Royal Navy as HMS Broadway, scrapped 1947
DD195	''Welborn C. Wood''	14 January 1921	9 September 1940	Scrapped	Served with the Coast Guard as CG-19 and Royal Navy as HMS Chesterfield; scrapped 1947
DD196	''George E. Badger''	28 July 1920	3 October 1945	Scrapped	Redesignated AVP-16, AVD-3, and APD-33; Served with the Coast Guard
DD197	''Branch''	26 July 1940	8 October 1940	Sunk	Served with the Royal Navy as HMS Beverley, sunk 9 April 1943
DD198	''Herndon''	14 September 1920	9 September 1940	Sunk	Served with the Coast Guard as CG-17, Royal Navy as HMS ''Churchill'', and the Soviet Union as ''Delatelnyi'', sunk 16 January 1945
DD199	''Dallas''	29 October 1920	28 July 1945	Scrapped	Renamed ''Alexander Dallas'' in 1945
DD206	''Chandler''	5 September 1919	12 November 1945	Sold	Redesignated DMS-9
DD207	''Southard''	24 September 1919	5 December 1945	Scrapped	Redesignated DMS-10
DD208	''Hovey''	24 September 1919	7 January 1945	Sunk	Redesignated DMS-11
DD209	''Long''	20 October 1919	6 January 1945	Sunk	Redesignated DMS-12
DD210	''Broome''	31 October 1919	20 May 1946	Scrapped	Redesignated AG-96
DD211	''Alden''	24 November 1919	15 July 1945	Scrapped
DD212	''Smith Thompson''	10 December 1919	15 May 1936	Sunk	Sunk at sea 25 July 1936
DD213	''Barker''	27 December 1919	18 July 1945	Sold
DD214	''Tracy''		19 January 1946	Scrapped	Redesignated DM-19
DD215	''Borie''	24 March 1920	2 November 1943	Sunk in Action	Lost after ramming enemy submarine (German U-Boat)
DD216	''John D. Edwards''	6 April 1920	28 July 1945	Scrapped
DD217	''Whipple''	23 April 1920	9 November 1945	Scrapped	Redesignated AG-117
DD218	''Parrott''	11 May 1920	14 June 1944	Scrapped
DD219	''Edsall''	26 November 1920	1 March 1942	Sunk in Action	Lost during the Battle of Java Sea
DD220	''MacLeish''	2 August 1920	8 March 1946	Scrapped	Redesignated AG-87
DD221	''Simpson''	3 November 1942	May 1946	Scrapped	Redesignated APD-27, AG-97
DD222	''Bulmer''	16 August 1920	16 August 1946	Sold	Redesignated AG-86
DD223	''McCormick''	30 August 1920	4 October 1945	Scrapped	Redesignated AG-118
DD224	''Stewart''	20 September 1920	23 May 1946	Sunk as Target	Captured by Japanese during World War II, saw service in Imperial Japanese Navy before being recaptured by American forces
DD225	''Pope''	27 October 1920	1 March 1942	Sunk in Action	Sunk during the Battle of the Java Sea
DD226	''Peary''	22 October 1920	19 February 1942	Sunk in Action	Sunk by Japanese aircraft
DD227	''Pillsbury''	15 December 1920	2 March 1942	Sunk in Action	Sunk during surface action, by Japanese Cruisers.
DD228	''John D. Ford''	30 December 1920	2 December 1945	Scrapped	Redesignated AG-119
DD229	''Truxtun''	30 December 1920	18 February 1942	Sunk	Sunk after running aground off Newfoundland
DD230	''Paul Jones''	19 April 1921	5 November 1945	Scrapped	Redesignated AG-120
DD231	''Hatfield''	16 April 1920	13 December 1946	Scrapped	Redesignated AG-84
DD232	''Brooks''	18 June 1920	2 August 1945	Sold	Redesignated APD-10
DD233	''Gilmer''	18 June 1920	5 February 1946	Scrapped	Redesignated APD-11
DD234	''Fox''	17 May 1920	29 November 1945	Scrapped	Redesignated AG-85
DD235	''Kane''			Scrapped 1946
DD236	''Humphreys''			Scrapped	1946
DD237	''McFarland''			Sold for scrap	1946
DD238	''James K. Paulding''			Scrapped	1936
DD239	''Overton''			Sold for scrap	1945
DD240	''Sturtevant''			Sunk	By US minefield 26 April 1942
DD241	''Childs''			Sold	1946
DD242	''King''			Sold for scrap	1946
DD243	''Sands''			Sold for scrap	1946
DD244	''Williamson''			Scrapped	1948
DD245	''Reuben James''	24 September 1920	31 October 1941	Sunk in Action	Sunk by German U-Boat forces, second American naval casualty of World War II
DD246	''Bainbridge''			Sold	1945
DD247	''Goff''			Scrapped	1947
DD248	''Barry''			Sunk in Action	By Japanese aircraft,21 June 1945
DD249	''Hopkins''			Sold for scrap	1946
DD250	''Lawrence''			Sold	1946
DD251	''Belknap''			Sold	1945
DD252	''McCook''			Sunk in Action	as HMCS St. Croix 22 September 1943
DD253	''McCalla''			Sunk in Action	as HMS Stanley 19 December 1941
DD254	''Rodgers''			Scrapped	1945
DD255	''Osmond Ingram''			Sold for scrap	1946
DD256	''Bancroft''			Declared surplus	as HMCS St. Francis 1945
DD257	''Welles''			Scrapped as HMS Cameron 1944
DD258	''Aulick''			Scrapped	1948
DD259	''Turner''			Sold for scrap	1947
DD260	''Gillis''			Sold for scrap	1946
DD261	''Delphy''			Wrecked	in the Honda Point disaster 08 September 1923
DD262	''McDermut''			Sold	1932
DD263	''Laub''			Transferred	to UK 1940
DD264	''McLanahan''			Scrapped	1946
DD265	''Edwards''			Struck	1943
DD266	''Greene''			Wrecked	in a typhoon, struck 1945-	DD267	''Ballard''			Sold	1946
DD268	''Shubrick''			Scrapped	1945
DD269	''Bailey''			Scrapped	1945
DD270	''Thornton''			Abandoned	to Ryukyu Islands 1957
DD271	''Morris''			Sold	1936
DD272	''Tingey''			Scrapped	1936
DD273	''Swasey''			Struck	1941
DD274	''Meade''			Scrapped	1947
DD275	''Sinclair''			Scrapped	1935
DD276	''McCawley''			Scrapped	1931
DD277	''Moody''			Sold & Sunk	Sold to MGM in 1931 for making of WWI film HELL BELOW. DD-277 was made up to look like an enemy (German) WWI destroyer and was sunk in 1933 by studio demolitions.
DD278	''Henshaw''			Sold	1930
DD279	''Meyer''			Sold	1932
DD280	''Doyen''			Scrapped	1930
DD281	''Sharkey''			Sold for scrap	1931
DD282	''Toucey''			Sold	1931
DD283	''Breck''			Sold	1931
DD284	''Isherwood''			Scrapped	1934
DD285	''Case''			Sold	1931
DD286	''Lardner''			Sold for scrap	1931
DD287	''Putnam''			Scrapped	1931
DD288	''Worden''			Sold for scrap	1931
DD289	''Flusser''			scrapped	1930
DD290	''Dale''			Sold	1931
DD291	''Converse''			Sold	1931
DD292	''Reid''			Sold for scrap	1931
DD293	''Billingsley''			Sold	1931
DD294	''Charles Ausburn''			Sold for scrap	1931
DD295	''Osborne''			Sold for scrap	1931
DD296	''Chauncey''			Wrecked	in the Honda Point disaster 08 September 1923
DD297	''Fuller''			Wrecked	in the Honda Point disaster 08 September 1923
DD298	''Percival''			Scrapped	1931
DD299	''John Francis Burnes''			Scrapped	1931
DD300	''Farragut''			Scrapped	1931
DD301	''Somers''			Sold for scrap	1931
DD302	''Stoddert''			Sold for scrap	1935
DD303	''Reno''			Sold for scrap	1931
DD304	''Farquhar''			Sold for scrap	1932
DD305	''Thompson''			Sunk as Target	February 1944
DD306	''Kennedy''			Sold for scrap	1932
DD307	''Paul Hamilton''			Scrapped	1931
DD308	''William Jones''			Sold for scrap	1932
DD309	''Woodbury''			Wrecked	in the Honda Point disaster 08 September 1923
DD310	''S. P. Lee''			Wrecked	in the Honda Point disaster 08 September 1923
DD311	''Nicholas''			Wrecked	in the Honda Point disaster 08 September 1923
DD312	''Young''			Wrecked	in the Honda Point disaster 08 September 1923
DD313	''Zeilin''			Scrapped
DD314	''Yarborough''			Scrapped	1932 DD315	''La Vallette''			Scrapped	1931
DD316	''Sloat''			Sunk as Target	26 June 1935
DD317	''Wood''			Sold for scrap	1930
DD318	''Shirk''			Scrapped	1931
DD319	''Kidder''			Scrapped	1930
DD320	''Selfridge''			Scrapped	1930
DD321	''Marcus''			Sunk as Target	25 June 1935
DD322	''Mervine''			Scrapped	1930
DD323	''Chase''			Sold for scrap	1931
DD324	''Robert Smith''			Sold for scrap	10 June 1931
DD325	''Mullany''			Sold for scrap	1931
DD326	''Coghlan''			Sold for scrap	19 March 1931
DD327	''Preston''			Sold for scrap	23 August 1932
DD328	''Lamson''			Sold for scrap	17 January 1931
DD329	''Bruce''			Sold for scrap	1932
DD330	''Hull''			Sold for scrap	1931
DD331	''Macdonough''			Sold for scrap	1930
DD332	''Farenholt''			Sold for scrap	1930
DD333	''Sumner''			Sold for scrap	1934
DD334	''Corry''			Sold for salvage	1930
DD335	''Melvin''			Sold for scrap	1930
DD336	''Litchfield''			Scrapped	29 March 1946
DD337	''Zane''			Scrapped	03 March 1947
DD338	''Wasmuth''			Sunk in Storm	Pacific, 29 December 1942
DD339	''Trever''			Scrapped	1945
DD340	''Perry''			Sunk in Action	Sunk by Japanese Mine, 13 September 1944
DD341	''Decatur''
DD342	''Hulbert''	27 October 1920	2 November 1945	Scrapped	Redesignated AVP-6
DD343	''Noa''	15 February 1921	12 September 1944	Sunk	Redesignated APD-24. Sank following collision
DD344	''William B. Preston''	23 August 1920	6 December 1945	Scrapped	Redesignated AVP-20, AVD-7
DD345	''Preble''	19 March 1920	7 December 1945	Scrapped	Redesignated DM-20, AG-99
DD346	''Sicard''	9 June 1920	21 November 1945	Scrapped	Redesignated DM-21, AG-100
DD347	''Pruitt''	9 June 1920	16 November 1945	Scrapped	Redesignated AG-101

External links

★ ''Clemson''-class destroyers at Destroyer History Foundation