Photo. www.navsource.org Photo Curt Clark - The Four Stacks APD Veterans
CLASS - CLEMSON
Basic repeat Wickes Class, with 35% more fuel capacity to improve endurance problems.
Designed radius was 4900 nautical miles at 15 Knots.
Launched March 6 1920 and commissioned July 28 1920.
Decommissioned August 11 1922.
Loaned to the Coast Guard as CG-16 October 1 1930 and returned May 21 1934.
Reclassified Sea Plane Tender AVP-16 October 1 1939.
Recommissioned January 8 1940.
Classification changed to AVD-3 August 2 1940.
Classification changed back to DD-196 December 1 1943.
Converted to High Speed Transport APD-33 April 10 1944.
Classification changed back to DD-196 July 20 1945.
Decommissioned October 3 1945.
Stricken October 24 1945.
Fate: Sold and broken up for scrap in 1946.
Displacement 1,215 Tons.
Dimensions, 314' 5" (oa) x 31' 8" x 9' 10" (Max)
Armament 4 x 4"/50, 1 x 3"/23AA, 12 x 21" tt.
Machinery, 26,500 SHP; Geared Turbines, 2 screws.
Speed, 35 Knots.
Crew 114.
Ordered to
USS George E. Badger seen in 1933 at Boston Navy yard upon completion. By Bill Gonyo. Photo. www.navsource.org