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TORPEDO SHIPS

SAMPSON destroyers (1916-1917)

Sampson 1916

Allen 1942

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
DD63 Sampson 242 Fore River, Quincy 4.1915 4.3.1916 6.1916 stricken 1.1936
DD64 Rowan 243 Fore River, Quincy 5.1915 23.3.1916 8.1916 stricken 1.1936
DD65, 3.1926- CG21, 6.1933- DD65 Davis 67 Bath Iron Wks 5.1915 15.8.1916 10.1916 Coast Guard cutter 3.1926, destroyer 6.1933, stricken 7.1934
DD66 Allen 68 Bath Iron Wks 5.1915 5.12.1916 1.1917 stricken 11.1945
DD67, 3.1926- CG25, 4.1934- DD67 Wilkes 422 Cramp, Philadelphia 3.1915 18.5.1916 11.1916 Coast Guard cutter 3.1926, destroyer 4.1934, stricken 7.1934
DD68, 3.1926- CG22, 6.1933- DD68 Shaw, 11.1933- unnamed   Mare Island N Yd, Vallejo 2.1916 9.12.1916 4.1917 Coast Guard cutter 3.1926, destroyer 6.1933, stricken 7.1934
  

Displacement normal, t

1100

Displacement full, t

1225

Length, m

96.1

Breadth, m

9.10

Draught, m

2.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

DD63 - 65: 2 Curtis steam turbines / 2 steam turbines for cruising, 4 Yarrow boilers

DD66 - 68: 2 Curtis steam turbines / 1 steam turbine for cruising, 4 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

17500

Max speed, kts

29.5

Fuel, t

oil 310

Endurance, nm(kts)

4300(14)

Armament

4 x 1 - 102/50 Mk IX, 2 x 1 - 37/43 Mk VI/VII, 4 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCR

Complement

99

Project history: The last of the 'thousand tonners', these six ships were authorized in June 1914. They incorporated both AA weapons (two 1pdr) and a new triple 533mm TT, which had been incorporated in the characteristics for Destroyer 1916, ie for the ships to be authorized in 1915, which became the Caldwell class.

    DD 66-68 each had a single cruising turbine that could be geared to one shaft. The other ships all had paired cruising turbines.

Modernizations: 1917 - 1918, all: - 1 x 1 - 37/43 (on most ships); + 1 DCT (Y-gun)

1930s, all survived: - (1 - 2) x 1 - 37/43; + 2 x 1 - 12.7/90

1942 - 1943, Allen: - 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 1 DCT (Y-gun); + 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 6 DCT, presumably SA, SE radars; displacement increased to 1152/1433t.

Naval service: About half of ships of this class served in the European waters in 1917-1918.

Allen

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