We now have full color
profiles for the Clemson
(DD-186) Class destroyers as
originally built. This was
the last class of flush-deck
four-stack destroyers to be
built between 1919 and 1922.
Future Tin Can Sailors
newspapers will have the
many modifications made to
the class such as reduction
to three stacks, mine
layers, mine sweepers, fast
transports, seaplane
tenders, etc. as well as
earlier four-stack classes.
Specifications for the
Clemson (DD-186) Class
destroyers were taken from
Ship’s Data U.S. Naval
Vessels, 1 January, 1938.
Displacement: 1,313 tons
(trial), Dimensions: 314'
4"overall, 30' 11" beam, 9'
4" max. draft. Speed: 35
knots. Armament: four
4-in./50 cal. guns, one
3-in./23 cal. gun, twelve
21-in torpedo tubes, two
depth charge tracks. Main
battery armament
modifications made during
the 1930s include five
4-in./50 cal. guns in
DD-189, eight 4-in./50 cal.
guns in DD-208 and 209, and
four 5-in./51 cal. guns in
DD-231-235. DD-293 carried a
Curtiss TS-1 seaplane and
DD-343 carried a Curtiss SOC
Seagull seaplane.
