Clemson class destroyer

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USS Clemson (DD-186)

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 under the White Ensign]
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
DD216	John D. Edwards	6 April 1920	28 July 1945	Scrapped
DD217	Whipple
DD218	Parrott
DD219	Edsall
DD220	MacLeish			Sold	Notes
DD221	Simpson			Sold	Notes
DD222	Bulmer
DD223	McCormick
DD224	Stewart
DD225	Pope
DD226	Peary
DD227	Pillsbury
DD228	John D. Ford
DD229	Truxtun
DD230	Paul Jones
DD231	Hatfield
DD232	Brooks
DD233	Gilmer
DD234	Fox
DD235	Kane
DD236	Humphreys
DD237	McFarland
DD238	James K. Paulding
DD239	Overton
DD240	Sturtevant
DD241	Childs
DD242	King
DD243	Sands
DD244	Williamson
DD245	Reuben James	24 September 1920	31 October 1941	Sunk	Sunk by German U-Boat forces, first American naval casualty of World War II
DD246	Bainbridge
DD247	Goff
DD248	Barry
DD249	Hopkins
DD250	Lawrence
DD251	Belknap
DD252	McCook
DD253	McCalla
DD254	Rodgers
DD255	Osmond Ingram
DD256	Bancroft
DD257	Welles
DD258	Aulick
DD259	Turner
DD260	Gillis
DD261	Delphy
DD262	McDermut
DD263	Laub
DD264	McLanahan
DD265	Edwards
DD266	Greene
DD267	Ballard
DD268	Shubrick
DD269	Bailey
DD270	Thornton
DD271	Morris
DD272	Tingey
DD273	Swasey
DD274	Meade
DD275	Sinclair
DD276	McCawley
DD277	Moody
DD278	Henshaw
DD279	Meyer
DD280	Doyen
DD281	Sharkey
DD282	Toucey
DD283	Breck
DD284	Isherwood
DD285	Case
DD286	Lardner
DD287	Putnam
DD288	Worden
DD289	Flusser
DD290	Dale
DD291	Converse
DD292	Reid
DD293	Billingsley
DD294	Charles Ausburn
DD295	Osborne
DD296	Chauncey
DD297	Fuller
DD298	Percival
DD299	John Francis Burnes
DD300	Farragut
DD301	Somers
DD302	Stoddert
DD303	Reno
DD304	Farquhar
DD305	Thompson
DD306	Kennedy
DD307	Paul Hamilton
DD308	William Jones
DD309	Woodbury
DD310	S. P. Lee
DD311	Nicholas
DD312	Young
DD313	Zeilin
DD314	Yarborough
DD315	La Vallette
DD316	Sloat
DD317	Wood
DD318	Shirk
DD319	Kidder
DD320	Selfridge
DD321	Marcus
DD322	Mervine
DD323	Chase
DD324	Robert Smith
DD325	Mullany
DD326	Coghlan
DD327	Preston
DD328	Lamson
DD329	Bruce
DD330	Hull
DD331	Macdonough
DD332	Farenholt
DD333	Sumner
DD334	Corry
DD335	Melvin
DD336	Litchfield
DD337	Zane
DD338	Wasmuth
DD339	Trever
DD340	Perry
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