List of Wickes Class Destroyers
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[edit] Ships in class
[edit] USS Wickes (HMS Montgomery)
- Designation: Destroyer No. 75, DD-75, G95
- Builders:
United States (Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine) - Laid down: 26 June 1917
- Launched: 25 June 1918 (List)
- Operator:
United States Navy - Commissioned: 31 July 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 23 October 1940 (List)
- Operator:
Royal Navy - Commissioned: 23 October 1940 (List)
- Decommissioned: 23 February 1944 (List)
- Status: Scrapped in the spring of 1945
- Operations: World War I and II convoy escort
- Victories:
[edit] USS Philip (HMS Lancaster)
- Designation: Destroyer No. 76, DD-76, G05
- Builders: United States (Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine)
- Laid down: 1 September 1917
- Launched: 25 July 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 24 August 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 23 October 1940 (List)
- Operator: Royal Navy
- Commissioned: 23 October 1940 (List)
- Decommissioned: July 1945 (List)
- Status: Decommissioned
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II minelayer and escort
[edit] USS Woolsey
- Designation: Destroyer No. 77, DD-77
- Builders: United States (Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine)
- Laid down: 1 November 1917
- Launched: 17 September 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 30 September 1918 (List)
- Status: Sunk in a collision 21 February 1921 (List)
- Operations: World War I convoy escort
[edit] USS Evans (HMS Mansfield)
- Designation: Destroyer No. 78, DD-78
- Builders: United States (Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine)
- Laid down: 28 December 1917
- Launched: 30 October 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 11 October 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 23 October 1940 (List)
- Operator: Royal Navy,
Royal Norwegian Navy, 
Royal Canadian Navy - Commissioned: 23 October 1940 (List)
- Decommissioned: 22 June 1944 (List)
- Status: Paid off
- Operations: World War I patrol, World War II convoy escort, Norwegian coastal raids
- Victories:
[edit] USS Little
- Designation: Destroyer No. 79, DD-79, APD-4
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down: 18 June 1917
- Launched: 11 November 1917 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 6 April 1918 (List)
- Status: Sunk by Japanese destroyers near Savo Island on 5 September 1942 (List)
- Operations: World War I patrol, World War II convoy escort, Norwegian coastal raids
- Modifications: Conversion to high-speed transport in 1940
[edit] USS Kimberly
- Designation: Destroyer No. 80, DD-80
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 14 December 1917 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 26 April 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 30 June 1922 (List)
- Status: Scrapped
- Operations: World War I convoy escort
[edit] USS Sigourney (HMS Newport)
- Designation: Destroyer No. 81, DD-81
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down: 25 August 1917
- Launched: 16 December 1917 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 15 May 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 26 November 1940 (List)
- Operator: Royal Navy, Royal Norwegian Navy
- Commissioned: 5 December 1940 (List)
- Decommissioned: January 1945 (List)
- Status: Scrapped 26 June 1947
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II convoy escort and target ship
[edit] USS Gregory
- Designation: Destroyer No. 82, DD-82, APD-3
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down: 25 August 1917
- Launched: 27 January 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 1 June 1918 (List)
- Status: Sunk near Guadalcanal 5 September 1942 (List)
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II fast transport
[edit] USS Stringham
- Designation: Destroyer No. 83, DD-83, APD-6
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down: 19 September 1917
- Launched: 30 March 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 2 July 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 9 November 1945 (List)
- Status: Scrapped March 1946
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II fast transport
[edit] USS Dyer
- Designation: Destroyer No. 84, DD-84
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 13 April 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 1 July 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 7 June 1922 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 8 September 1936
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, VIP transport
[edit] USS Colhoun
- Designation: Destroyer No. 85, DD-85, APD-2
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down: 19 September 1917
- Launched: 21 February 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 13 June 1918 (List)
- Status: Sunk near Guadalcanal on 30 August 1942 (List)
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, Guadalcanal high speed transport
[edit] USS Stevens
- Designation: Destroyer No. 86, DD-86
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down: 20 September 1917
- Launched: 13 January 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 24 May 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 19 June 1922 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 8 September 1936
- Operations: World War I convoy escort
[edit] USS McKee
- Designation: Destroyer No. 87, DD-87
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down: 29 October 1917
- Launched: 23 March 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 7 September 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 16 June 1922 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 7 January 1936
- Operations: World War I convoy escort
[edit] USS Robinson (HMS Newmarket)
- Designation: Destroyer No. 88, DD-88
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down: 31 October 1917
- Launched: 28 March 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 19 October 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 3 August 1922 (List)
- Operator: Royal Navy (as HMS Newmarket)
- Commissioned: 5 December 1940 (List)
- Decommissioned:
- Status: Scrapped in September 1945
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, Transatlantic flight plane guard, World War II convoy escort and aircraft target ship
[edit] USS Ringgold / HMS Newark
- Designation: Destroyer No. 89, DD-89
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 14 April 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 14 November 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 17 June 1922 (List)
- Operator: Royal Navy (as HMS Newark)
- Commissioned: 26 November 1940 (List)
- Decommissioned:
- Status: Scrapped in 18 February 1947
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II convoy escort and aircraft target ship
- Victories: Damaged one German submarine
[edit] USS McKean
- Designation: Destroyer No. 90, DD-90, APD-5
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down: 12 February 1918
- Launched: 4 July 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 25 February 1919 (List)
- Status: Sunk near Bougainville on 17 November 1943 (List)
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, Guadalcanal high speed transport
[edit] USS Harding
- Designation: Destroyer No. 91, DD-91
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 4 July 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 24 January 1919 (List)
- Decommissioned: 1 July 1922 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 8 September 1936
- Operations: World War I convoy escort
[edit] USS Gridley
- Designation: Destroyer No. 92, DD-92
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down: 1 April 1918
- Launched: 4 July 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 8 March 1919 (List)
- Decommissioned: 22 June 1922 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 19 April 1939
- Operations: World War I convoy escort
[edit] USS Fairfax — HMS Richmond — Jivoochyi
- Designation: Destroyer No. 93, DD-93
- Builders: United States (Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California)
- Laid down: 10 July 1917
- Launched: 15 December 1917 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy (as USS Fairfax)
- Commissioned: 6 April 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 26 November 1940 (List)
- Operator: Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy (as HMS Richmond)
- Commissioned: 5 December 1940 (List)
- Decommissioned: 16 July 1944 (List)
- Operator:
Soviet Navy (as Jivoochyi) - Commissioned: 16 July 1944 (List)
- Status: Scrapped 1949
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II Arctic and Atlantic convoy escort
[edit] USS Taylor
- Designation: Destroyer No. 94, DD-94, Damage Control Hulk No. 40
- Builders: United States (Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California)
- Laid down: 15 October 1917
- Launched: 14 February 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 1 June 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 23 September 1938 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 8 August 1945
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, Special Service Squadron, World War II damage control hulk
[edit] USS Bell
- Designation: Destroyer No. 95, DD-95
- Builders: United States (Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 20 April 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 31 July 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 21 June 1922 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap
- Operations: World War I escort
[edit] USS Stribling
- Designation: Destroyer No. 96, DD-96, DM-1
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 29 May 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 16 August 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 26 June 1922 (List)
- Status: Sunk as a target
- Operations: World War I escort, conversion to a destroyer minelayer
[edit] USS Murray
- Designation: Destroyer No. 97, DD-97, DM-2
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down: 22 December 1917
- Launched: 8 June 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 21 August 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 1 July 1922 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 29 September 1936
- Operations: World War I escort, conversion to a destroyer minelayer
[edit] USS Israel
- Designation: Destroyer No. 98, DD-98, DM-3
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 22 June 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 13 September 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 7 July 1922 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 18 April 1939
- Operations: World War I escort, conversion to a destroyer minelayer
[edit] USS Luce
- Designation: Destroyer No. 99, DD-99, DM-4
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down: 9 February 1918
- Launched: 29 June 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 11 September 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 31 January 1931 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 13 November 1936
- Operations: World War I Mediterranean escort, Food Commission patrol, conversion to a destroyer minelayer, Canal Zone Control Force
[edit] USS Maury
- Designation: Destroyer No. 100, DD-100, DM-5
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down: 4 May 1918
- Launched: 4 July 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 23 September 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 19 March 1930 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 1 May 1934
- Operations: World War I Mediterranean patrol, conversion to a destroyer minelayer
[edit] USS Lansdale
- Designation: Destroyer No. 101, DD-101, DM-6
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down: 20 April 1918
- Launched: 21 July 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 26 October 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 24 March 1931 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 28 December 1936
- Operations: World War I Atlantic and Mediterranean patrol, conversion to a destroyer minelayer
[edit] USS Mahan
- Designation: Destroyer No. 102, DD-102, DM-7
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down: 4 May 1918
- Launched: 4 August 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 24 October 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 1 May 1930 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 22 October 1930
- Operations: World War I Caribbean patrol, conversion to a destroyer minelayer
[edit] USS Schley
- Designation: Destroyer No. 103, DD-103, APD-14
- Builders: United States (Fore River Shipbuilding in Quincy, Massachusetts)
- Laid down: 29 October 1917
- Launched: 28 March 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 20 September 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 9 November 1945 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 1946
- Operations: World War I Mediterranean patrol, Attack on Pearl Harbor, World War II fast transport
[edit] USS Champlin
- Designation: Destroyer No. 104, DD-104
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 7 April 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 11 November 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 7 June 1922 (List)
- Status: Sunk in trials 12 April 1936
- Operations: Training operations
[edit] USS Mugford
- Designation: Destroyer No. 105, DD-105
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down: 20 December 1917
- Launched: 14 April 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 25 November 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 7 June 1922 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap in 1936
- Operations: Peacetime operations
[edit] USS Chew
- Designation: Destroyer No. 106, DD-106
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 26 May 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 12 December 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 10 October 1945 (List)
- Status: 4 October 1946 Sold
- Operations: Attack on Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor area patrol
[edit] USS Hazelwood
- Designation: Destroyer No. 107, DD-107
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down: 24 December 1917
- Launched: 22 June 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 20 February 1919 (List)
- Decommissioned: 15 November 1930 (List)
- Status: Scrapped
- Operations: Attack on Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor area patrol
[edit] USS Williams — HMCS St. Clair
- Designation: Destroyer No. 108, DD-108, I-65
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down: 25 March 1918
- Launched: 4 July 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 1 March 1919 (List)
- Decommissioned: 24 September 1940 (List)
- Operator: Royal Canadian Navy
- Commissioned: 24 September 1940 (List)
- Decommissioned: August 1944 (List)
- Status: Scrapped 6 October 1946
- Operations: Neutrality Patrol, World War II Atlantic convoy escort, submarine depot ship, damage control hulk
[edit] USS Crane
- Designation: Destroyer No. 109, DD-109
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down: 7 January 1918
- Launched: 4 July 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 18 April 1919 (List)
- Decommissioned: 14 November 1945 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 1 November 1946
- Operations: Neutrality Patrol, World War II US Pacific Coast patrol and training operations
[edit] USS Hart
- Designation: Destroyer No. 110, DD-110
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 4 July 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 26 May 1919 (List)
- Decommissioned: 1 June 1931 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 25 February 1932
- Operations: Asiatic Fleet
[edit] USS Ingraham
- Designation: Destroyer No. 111, DD-111, DM-9
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 4 July 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 15 May 1919 (List)
- Decommissioned: 29 June 1922 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap
- Operations: Minelayer conversion
[edit] USS Ludlow
- Designation: Destroyer No. 112, DD-112, DM-10
- Builders: United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
- Laid down: 7 January 1918
- Launched: 9 June 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 23 December 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 24 May 1930 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 10 March 1931
- Operations: Minelayer conversion
[edit] USS Rathburne
- Designation: Destroyer No. 113, DD-113, APD-25
- Builders: United States (William Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Laid down: 12 July 1917
- Launched: 17 December 1917 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 24 June 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 2 November 1945 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap November 1946
- Operations: World War I convoy escort; Asiatic Fleet; World War II training ship and high speed transport
- Victories: 2 Japanese aircraft
[edit] USS Talbot
- Designation: Destroyer No. 114, DD-114, APD-7
- Builders: United States (William Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Laid down: 12 July 1917
- Launched: 20 February 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 20 July 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 9 October 1945 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 30 January 1946
- Operations: World War II high speed transport
[edit] USS Waters
- Designation: Destroyer No. 115, DD-115, APD-8
- Builders: United States (William Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Laid down: 26 July 1917
- Launched: 3 March 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 8 August 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 12 October 1945 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 10 May 1946
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II high speed transport
[edit] USS Dent
- Designation: Destroyer No. 116, DD-116, APD-9
- Builders: United States (William Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 23 March 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 9 September 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 4 December 1945 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 13 June 1946
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II high speed transport
[edit] USS Dorsey
- Designation: Destroyer No. 117, DD-117, DMS-1
- Builders: United States (William Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 9 April 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 16 September 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 8 December 1945 (List)
- Status: Grounded by a typhoon 9 October 1945 (List) and destroyed 1 January 1946
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II high speed mine-sweeper
[edit] USS Lea
- Designation: Destroyer No. 118, DD-118
- Builders: United States (William Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Laid down: 18 September 1918
- Launched: 29 April 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 2 October 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 20 July 1945 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrapping 30 November 1946
- Operations: World War II convoy escort and training ship
[edit] USS Lamberton
- Designation: Destroyer No. 119, DD-119, AG-21, DMS-2
- Builders: United States (Newport News Shipbuilding Company in Newport News, Virginia)
- Laid down: 1 October 1917
- Launched: 30 March 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 22 August 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 13 December 1946 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrapping 9 May 1949
- Operations: Gunnery training, minesweeping, Aleutian Campaign
[edit] USS Radford
- Designation: Destroyer No. 120, DD-120, AG-22
- Builders: United States (Newport News Shipbuilding Company in Newport News, Virginia)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 5 April 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 30 September 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 9 June 1922 (List)
- Status: Sunk in accordance with the London Treaty on 5 August 1936
- Operations: World War I convoy escort
Image:USSMontgomeryDD120withDD121.jpg
With Radford (DD-121)
[edit] USS Montgomery
- Designation: Destroyer No. 121, DD-121, DM-17
- Builders: United States (Newport News Shipbuilding Company in Newport News, Virginia)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 23 March 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 26 July 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 23 April 1945 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 11 March 1946
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II minelayer and patrols, Solomons, Aleutian, Kwajalein, Peleliu
[edit] USS Breese
- Designation: Destroyer No. 122, DD-122, DM-18
- Builders: United States (Newport News Shipbuilding Company in Newport News, Virginia)
- Laid down:
- Launched: 11 May 1918 (List)
- Operator: United States Navy
- Commissioned: 23 October 1918 (List)
- Decommissioned: 15 January 1946 (List)
- Status: Sold for scrap 16 May 1946
- Operations: World War I convoy escort, minelayer conversion, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Solomons, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Okinawa
A further 63 ships were built.
[edit] External links
- Wickes-class destroyers at Destroyer History Foundation
- The Pacific War: The U.S. Navy, page for Wickes class
