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O`Brien 1918

Ships

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

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1050
Displacement full, t	1171
Length, m	93.1
Breadth, m	9.50
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

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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.