Smith class destroyer

Class overview
*USS Smith* (DD-17)**
Name:	Smith class destroyer
Operators:	United States Navy
Preceded by:	Truxtun class destroyer
Succeeded by:	Paulding class destroyer
In commission:	1909 - 1919
Completed:	5
Retired:	5
Preserved:	0
General characteristics
Type:	Destroyer
Displacement:	700 tons (normal) 902 tons (full load)
Length:	293 ft 10 in
Beam:	26 ft 0 in
Draft:	8 ft 0 in
Propulsion:	4 Boilers 3 Parsons Turbines 10,362 horsepower
Speed:	28.3 knots
Capacity:	298 tons (coal) (fuel)
Complement:	4 Officers 83 Enlisted
Armament:	Five 3"/50 caliber rapid fire guns Three 18" torpedo tubes

The Smith-class destroyers were among the first destroyers in the United States Navy.

Five ships were built using the basic Smith design. However, Flusser and Reid are sometimes considered to be Flusser-class ships.

Ships in class

Smith-class destroyer

Smith · Lamson · Preston · Flusser · Reid

Preceded by: Truxtun class - Followed by: Paulding class

List of destroyers of the United States Navy · List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy

United States naval ship classes of World War I

Dreadnought battleships	South Carolina Delaware Florida Wyoming New York Nevada Pennsylvania New Mexico Tennessee ^C Colorado ^C South Dakota ^X

Pre-dreadnought battleships	Indiana Iowa ^S Kearsarge Illinois Maine Virginia Connecticut

Battlecruisers	Lexington ^X

Armored cruisers	New York ^S Brooklyn ^S Pennsylvania Tennessee

Light cruisers	Chester

Protected cruisers	Chicago ^S Baltimore ^S San Francisco ^S Olympia ^S Cincinnati ^S Raleigh ^S Montgomery ^S Marblehead ^S Columbia New Orleans Denver St. Louis

Destroyers	Bainbridge Truxtun Smith Paulding Cassin Aylwin O'Brien Tucker Sampson Caldwell Wickes Clemson ^C

Submarines	Plunger B C D E F G H K L M-1 ^S AA-1 N O R

Auxiliaries	Recruit ^S

S — Single ship of class C — Completed after the war X — Cancelled