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TUCKER destroyers (1915 - 1916)


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Jacob Jones 1915  

Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
DD57, 3.1926- CG23, 6.1933- DD57 Tucker, 11.1933- unnamed 226 Fore River, Quincy 11.1914 4.5.1915 4.1916 Coast Guard cutter 3.1926, destroyer 6.1933, stricken 10.1936
DD58, 6.1924- CG2, 6.1933- DD58 Conyngham, 11.1933- unnamed 419 Cramp, Philadelphia 7.1914 8.7.1915 1.1916 Coast Guard cutter 6.1924, destroyer 6.1933, stricken 7.1934
DD59, 6.1924- CG7, 6.1933- DD59 Porter, 7.1933- unnamed 420 Cramp, Philadelphia 8.1914 26.7.1915 4.1916 Coast Guard cutter 6.1924, destroyer 6.1933, stricken 7.1934
DD60 Wadsworth 64 Bath Iron Wks 2.1914 29.4.1915 7.1915 stricken 1.1936
DD61 Jacob Jones 150 New York SB, Camden 1914 29.5.1915 2/1916 sunk 6.12.1917
DD62, 4.1926- CG24, 4.1934- DD62 Wainwright 151 New York SB, Camden 9.1914 12.6.1915 5.1916 Coast Guard cutter 4.1926, destroyer 4.1934, stricken 7.1934


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

DD57 - 59: 1090

DD60: 1060

DD61, 62: 1150

Displacement full, t

1205

Length, m

96.1

Breadth, m

DD57, 60, 62: 9.10

DD58, 59: 9.30

Draught, m

DD57 - 59, 62: 2.90

DD60: 2.80

No of shafts

2

Machinery

DD57 - 59, 61, 62: 2 Curtis steam turbines / 1 stream turbine for cruising, 4 Yarrow boilers

DD60: 2 sets Curtis geared steam turbines, 4 Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

DD57, 61, 62: 17000

DD58, 59: 18000

DD60: 17500

Max speed, kts

29.5

Fuel, t

oil 310

Endurance, nm(kts)2500(20)
Armament

4 x 1 - 102/50 Mk IX, 4 x 2 - 533 TT, 2 DCR

Complement

99



Standard scale images


<i>nearly sister-ship Nicholson</i> 1915
nearly sister-ship Nicholson 1915


Graphics


<i>Jacob Jones</i> 1915  
Jacob Jones 1915  


Project history

Last class of '1000-tonners' , direct predecessors of 'flushdeckers', differing from them only by hull form (with a forecastle).

Modernizations

1917 - 1918, all: + 1 DCT (Y-gun)

Naval service

About half of ships of this class served in the European waters in 1917-1918. Wadsworth was a leader of USN destroyers in British waters since April, 1917. Jacob Jones was torpedoed off Scilly island by German submarine U53 6.12.1917.