Nicholson 1915
| No | Name | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| DD51 | O'Brien | 404 | Cramp, Philadelphia | 9.1913 | 20.7.1914 | 5.1915 | stricken 3.1935 |
| DD52 | Nicholson | 405 | Cramp, Philadelphia | 9.1913 | 19.8.1914 | 4.1915 | stricken 1.1936 |
| DD53 | Winslow, 11.1933- unnamed | 406 | Cramp, Philadelphia | 10.1913 | 11.2.1915 | 8.1915 | stricken 1.1936 |
| DD54, 6.1924- CG6, 6.1933- DD54 | McDougal, 7.1933- unnamed | 62 | Bath Iron Wks | 7.1913 | 22.4.1914 | 5/1914 | Coast Guard cutter 6.1924, destroyer 6.1933, stricken 7.1934 |
| DD55 | Cushing, 7.1933- unnamed | 215 | Fore River, Quincy | 9.1913 | 16.1.1915 | 8.1915 | stricken 1.1936 |
| DD56, 6.1924- CG5, 4.1934- DD56 | Ericsson | 141 | New York SB, Camden | 11.1913 | 22.8.1914 | 8.1915 | Coast Guard cutter 6.1924, destroyer 4.1934, stricken 7.1934 |
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Displacement normal, t |
1050 |
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Displacement full, t |
1171 |
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Length, m |
93.1 |
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Breadth, m |
9.50 |
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Draught, m |
2.90 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
DD51 - 53: 2 Zoelly steam turbines / 2 VTE for cruising, 4 White Forster boilers DD54, 56: 2 Zoelly steam turbines / 1 VTE for cruising, 4 White Forster boilers DD55: 2 Zoelly steam turbines / 2 steam turbines for cruising, 4 White Forster boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
17000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
29 |
|
Fuel, t |
oil 290 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
|
Armament |
4 x 1 - 102/50 Mk IX, 4 x 2 - 533 TT |
|
Complement |
101 |
Project history: These were improved Cassins with 533mm TT which had been suggested by the Bureau of Ordnance in May 1912. The first six were authorized in March 1913. The second group of six (DD 57-62), the Tucker class, were authorized in 1913. Their General Board characteristics included, for the first time, a call for two AA guns, as well as provision to lay 36 floating mines.
Of this class, DD 51-53 had a reciprocating cruise engine on each shaft; DD 54 and DD 56 had a single reciprocating engine which could be clutched to one shaft for cruising; DD 55 had a pair of cruising turbines; DD 57-59 and DD 61-62 had a single cruising turbine geared to one shaft. Wadsworth (DD 60) had the prototype US main turbine geared turbine installation, and so had a considerable effect on destroyer design from 1915 on.
Modernizations: 1917 - 1918, all: + 1 DCT (Y-gun), 2 DCR
Naval service: The part of these destroyers was a part of USN Forces in Europe during Great War.
O`Brien 1918
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