Paulding class

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Paulding class
USS Paulding (DD-22)
USS Paulding (DD-22)
Overview
Type destroyer
units 21st
Namesake Rear Adm. Hiram A. Paulding
period of service

1910-1919

Technical specifications
displacement

740  ts

length

89.56 m

width

7.93 m

Draft

2.44 m

crew

4 officers, 83 NCOs and men

drive
speed

32.8  kn

Armament

The Paulding-class was a 21-unit destroyer class of the United States Navy and a further development of the Smith class . They entered service in 1909. In 1919 it was decommissioned. 14 ships were then handed over to the United States Coast Guard .

Three years after the commissioning of the first Bainbridge-class and Truxtun-class destroyers , a commission headed by Rear Adm. George A. Converse was established to deal with future requirements for destroyers in the US Navy. One result of the commission was the use of steam turbines instead of the triple expansion machines previously used .

The first units to be influenced by the work of the commission were the 740 ts destroyers of the Paulding class and the previously built Smith class, also known as Flivvers . In addition to the change in drive, the number of 3 "guns was increased from three to five and the 18" torpedoes in single tubes were replaced by three twin tubes. A heightened forecastle and a longer hull compared to the first class of destroyers improved the seaworthiness of the destroyers. In contrast to the five coal-fired units of the Smith-class , the units of the Paulding-class were fueled with oil and had more power. Due to the oil firing and the increase in power, the destroyers were lighter and faster than their predecessors.

The construction contract went to the shipyards William Cramp & Sons , New York Shipbuilding and Bath Iron Works , which had already built the Smith-class destroyers . Then there were the Newport News Shipbuilding and Fore River Shipbuilding Company yards . There were different combinations of propulsion systems within the class. DD-24 - DD-27 as well as DD-30 and DD-31 had three instead of four chimneys.

List of Paulding-class destroyers

Surname shipyard Remarks

USS Paulding (DD-22)

Bath Iron Works 1924 to US Coast Guard
USS Drayton (DD-23) Bath Iron Works -
USS Roe (DD-24) Newport News Shipbuilding 1924 to US Coast Guard, three chimneys
USS Terry (DD-25) Newport News Shipbuilding 1924 to US Coast Guard, three chimneys
USS Perkins (DD-26) Fore River Shipbuilding Company Three chimneys
USS Sterett (DD-27) Fore River Shipbuilding Company Three chimneys
USS McCall (DD-28) New York Shipbuilding Company 1924 to US Coast Guard
USS Burrows (DD-29) New York Shipbuilding Company 1924 to US Coast Guard
USS Warrington (DD-30) William Cramp and Sons Three chimneys
USS Mayrant (DD-31) William Cramp and Sons Three chimneys
USS Monaghan (DD-32) New York Shipbuilding Company 1924 to US Coast Guard, three chimneys
USS Trippe (DD-33) Bath Iron Works 1924 to US Coast Guard
USS Walke (DD-34) Fore River Shipbuilding Company -
USS Nurse (DD-35) New York Shipbuilding Company 1924 to US Coast Guard
USS Patterson (DD-36) William Cramp and Sons 1924 to US Coast Guard
USS Fanning (DD-37) Newport News Shipbuilding 1924 to US Coast Guard
USS Jarvis (DD-38) New York Shipbuilding Company -
USS Henley (DD-39) New York Shipbuilding Company 1924 to US Coast Guard
USS Beale (DD-40) William Cramp and Sons 1924 to US Coast Guard
USS Jouett (DD-41) Bath Iron Works 1924 to US Coast Guard
USS Jenkins (DD-42) Bath Iron Works 1924 to US Coast Guard

photos

  • USS Henley in camouflage scheme

  • USS Perkins with three funnels

  • USS Trippe with four funnels

  • USS wet nurses in service with the US Coast Guard

  • USS Patterson circa 1916

  • USS Roe

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