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Flusser 1909

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
DD17	Smith	350	Cramp, Philadelphia	3/1908	20.4.1909	11/1909	stricken 9.1919
DD18	Lamson	351	Cramp, Philadelphia	3/1908	16.6.1909	2/1910	stricken 9.1919
DD19	Preston	62	New York SB, Camden	4/1908	14.7.1909	12/1909	stricken 9.1919
DD20	Flusser	49	Bath Iron Wks	8/1908	20.7.1909	10/1909	stricken 9.1919
DD21	Reid	50	Bath Iron Wks	8/1908	17.8.1909	12/1909	stricken 9.1919

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	700
Displacement full, t	900
Length, m	88.1 wl 89.6 oa
Breadth, m	7.90
Draught, m	2.40
No of shafts	3
Machinery	3 Parsons steam turbines, 4 Mosher boilers
Power, h. p.	10000
Max speed, kts	28
Fuel, t	coal 304
Endurance, nm(kts)	2800(10)
Armament	5 x 1 - 76/50 Mk III/V/VI, 3 x 1 - 450 TT (6)
Complement	87

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Project history

These ships were conceived as fully seagoing destroyers, as compared lo the relatively fragile craft of the first US series, ordered in 1898. Hence the high forecastle, and their relatively large size. Ironically, within a few years US practice had jumped once more, to the 'thousand tonners', and these and other smaller destroyers were dismissed as 'flivvers'. Although the design originally provided for either reciprocating engines or turbines, the turbine bids were much lower. The two Cramp ships had their two amidships funnels closely paired, the New York ship had hers equally spaced, and the two Bath ships had theirs paired fore and aft. All had triple screws driven by Parsons turbines, with the high-pressure unit on the centre shaft, and the two low-pressure turbines (and cruising turbines) on the wing shafts. The uniform armament of 5-76mm/50 guns was a considerable advance on the earlier ships, but, like their predecessors, these destroyers had single TTs, with one reload stowed near each tube.

Modernizations

1916, all: - 1 x 1 - 76/50, 3 x 1 - 450 TT; + 3 x 2 - 450 TT (6)

Naval service

Smith was based at Brest 1917-18.