List of Wickes-class destroyers


List of Wickes-class destroyers.

Ships in class

USS Wickes (HMS Montgomery)

USS Wickes
  • 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)
  • Fate: Scrapped in the spring of 1945
  • Operations: World War I and II convoy escort
  • Victories:

USS Philip (HMS Lancaster)

USS Philip
  • 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)
  • Fate: Scrapped 1947
  • Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II minelayer and escort

USS Woolsey

USS Woolsey

USS Evans (HMS Mansfield)

USS Evans

USS Little

USS Little

USS Kimberly

USS Kimberly

USS Sigourney (HMS Newport)

USS Sigourney

USS Gregory

In port 1942

USS Stringham

USS Dyer

USS Colhoun


USS Stevens

USS McKee

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:
  • Fate: Scrapped in September 1945
  • Operations: World War I convoy escort, Transatlantic flight plane guard, World War II convoy escort and aircraft target ship

USS Ringgold (HMS Newark)

  • Designation: Destroyer No. 89, DD-89
  • Builders:  United States (Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California)
  • Laid down: 20 October 1917
  • 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:
  • Fate: Scrapped on 18 February 1947, Bo'ness, Scotland
  • Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II convoy escort and aircraft target ship
  • Victories: Damaged one German submarine

USS McKean

USS Harding

USS Gridley

USS Fairfax (HMS Richmond) — (later Soviet Zhivuchiy "Tenacious").

USS Taylor

USS Bell

USS Stribling

USS Murray

USS Israel


USS Luce

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)
  • Fate: Sold for scrap 13 November 1936
  • Operations: World War I Mediterranean escort, Food Commission patrol, conversion to a destroyer minelayer, Canal Zone Control Force

USS Maury

USS Lansdale

USS Mahan

USS Schley

USS Champlin

USS Mugford

USS Chew

Chew in 1945

USS Hazelwood

USS Williams (HMCS St. Clair)

USS Crane

USS Hart

USS Ingraham

USS Ludlow

USS Rathburne

  • Designation: Destroyer No. 113, DD-113, APD-25
  • Builders:  United States (William Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia)
  • Laid down: 12 July 1917
  • Launched: 17 December 1917 (List)
  • Operator:  United States Navy
  • Commissioned: 24 June 1918 (List)
  • Decommissioned: 2 November 1945 (List)
  • Fate: 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

USS Talbot

USS Waters

  • Designation: Destroyer No. 115, DD-115, APD-8
  • Builders:  United States (William Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia)
  • Laid down: 26 July 1917
  • Launched: 3 March 1918 (List)
  • Operator:  United States Navy
  • Commissioned: 8 August 1918 (List)
  • Decommissioned: 12 October 1945 (List)
  • Fate: Sold for scrap 10 May 1946
  • Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II high speed transport

USS Dent

  • Designation: Destroyer No. 116, DD-116, APD-9
  • Builders:  United States (William Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia)
  • Laid down: 30 August 1917
  • Launched: 23 March 1918 (List)
  • Operator:  United States Navy
  • Commissioned: 9 September 1918 (List)
  • Decommissioned: 4 December 1945 (List)
  • Fate: Sold for scrap 13 June 1946
  • Operations: World War I convoy escort, World War II high speed transport

USS Dorsey

  • Designation: Destroyer No. 117, DD-117, DMS-1
  • Builders:  United States (William Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia)
  • Laid down: 18 September 1917
  • Launched: 9 April 1918 (List)
  • Operator:  United States Navy
  • Commissioned: 16 September 1918 (List)
  • Decommissioned: 8 December 1945 (List)
  • Fate: 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

USS Lea

USS Lamberton

USS Radford

USS Montgomery

USS Breese

USS Gamble

USS Ramsay

USS Tattnall

USS Badger

USS Twiggs (HMS Leamington) - (Later Soviet Zhguchiy: "Firebrand").

USS Babbitt

USS DeLong

USS Jacob Jones

USS Buchanan (HMS Campbeltown)

Buchanan

USS Aaron Ward

  • Designation: Destroyer No. 132, DD-132
  • Builders:
  • Laid down:
  • Launched:
  • Operator:
  • Commissioned:
  • Decommissioned:

USS Hale

USS Crowninshield (HMS Chelsea) - (Later Soviet Derzkiy: "Ardent")

USS Tillman

A further 50 ships were built.

Tabulated details

Hull no. Ship name Builder Laid down Launched Commissioned Fate Service notes
DD-075 Wickes Bath Iron Works 26 June 1917 25 June 1918 31 July 1918 Scrapped by UK, 1945 [1]
DD-076 Philip 1 September 1917 25 July 1918 24 August 1918 Scrapped by UK, 1947 [2]
DD-077 Woolsey 1 November 1917 17 September 1918 30 September 1918 Sunk following accident, 21 February 1921 [3]
DD-078 Evans 28 December 1917 30 October 1918 11 November 1918 Scrapped by UK, 1945 [4] Archived 24 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
DD-079 Little Fore River Shipyard 18 June 1917 11 November 1917 6 April 1918 Sunk in battle, 5 September 1942 [5]
DD-080 Kimberly 21 June 1917 14 December 1917 26 April 1918 Scrapped by US, 20 April 1939 [6]
DD-081 Sigourney 25 August 1917 16 December 1917 15 May 1918 Scrapped by UK, 18 February 1947 [7] Archived 26 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
DD-082 Gregory 25 August 1917 27 January 1918 1 June 1918 Sunk in battle, 5 September 1942 [8] Archived 23 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-083 Stringham 19 September 1917 30 March 1918 2 July 1918 Scrapped by US, March 1946 [9] Archived 8 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
DD-084 Dyer 26 September 1917 13 April 1918 1 July 1918 Scrapped by US, 8 September 1936 [10]
DD-085 Colhoun 19 September 1917 21 February 1918 13 June 1918 Sunk in battle, 30 August 1942 [11]
DD-086 Stevens 20 September 1917 13 January 1918 24 May 1918 Sold for scrap, 8 September 1936 [12]
DD-087 McKee Union Iron Works 29 October 1917 23 March 1918 7 September 1918 Scrapped by US, January 1936 [13]
DD-088 Robinson 31 October 1917 28 March 1918 19 October 1918 Scrapped by UK, September 1945 [14]
DD-089 Ringgold 20 October 1917 14 April 1918 14 November 1918 Scrapped by UK, 18 February 1947 [15]
DD-090 McKean 12 February 1918 4 July 1918 25 February 1919 Sunk in battle, 17 November 1943 [16]
DD-091 Harding 12 February 1918 4 July 1918 4 January 1919 Scrapped by US, 8 September 1936 [17]
DD-092 Gridley 1 April 1918 4 July 1918 8 March 1919 Scrapped by US, 19 April 1939 [18]
DD-093 Fairfax Mare Island Navy Yard 10 July 1917 15 December 1917 6 April 1918 Scrapped by UK, 23 June 1949 [19] Archived 30 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-094 Taylor 15 October 1917 14 February 1918 1 June 1918 Scrapped by US, August 1945 [20] Archived 7 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
DD-095 Bell Fore River Shipyard 16 November 1917 20 April 1918 31 July 1918 Scrapped by US, 18 April 1939 [21] Archived 24 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
DD-096 Stribling 14 December 1917 29 May 1918 16 August 1918 Sunk as target, January 1937 [22]
DD-097 Murray 22 December 1917 8 June 1918 21 August 1918 Scrapped by US, 29 September 1936 [23]
DD-098 Israel 26 January 1918 22 June 1918 13 September 1918 Scrapped by US, 18 April 1939 [24]
DD-099 Luce 9 February 1918 29 June 1918 11 September 1918 Scrapped by US, 13 November 1936 [25]
DD-100 Maury 4 May 1918 4 July 1918 23 September 1918 Scrapped by US, 1 May 1934 [26]
DD-101 Lansdale 20 April 1918 21 July 1918 26 October 1918 Scrapped by US, 28 December 1936 [27]
DD-102 Mahan 4 May 1918 4 August 1918 24 October 1918 Scrapped by US, 17 January 1931 [28]
DD-103 Schley Union Iron Works 29 October 1917 28 March 1918 20 September 1918 Scrapped by US, 1946 [29]
DD-104 Champlin 31 October 1917 7 April 1918 11 November 1918 Sunk in tests, 12 April 1936 [30] Archived 26 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
DD-105 Mugford 20 December 1917 14 April 1918 25 November 1918 Scrapped by US, 1936 [31]
DD-106 Chew 2 January 1918 26 May 1918 12 December 1918 Scrapped by US, 4 October 1946 [32] Archived 26 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
DD-107 Hazelwood 24 December 1917 22 June 1918 20 February 1919 Scrapped by US, 14 April 1930 [33]
DD-108 Williams 25 March 1918 4 July 1918 1 March 1919 Scrapped by UK, 1946 [34] Archived 26 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
DD-109 Crane 7 January 1918 4 July 1918 18 April 1919 Scrapped by US, 1 November 1946 [35]
DD-110 Hart 8 January 1918 4 July 1918 26 May 1919 Scrapped by US, 25 February 1932 [36]
DD-111 Ingraham 12 January 1918 4 July 1918 15 May 1919 Scrapped by US, 1936 [37]
DD-112 Ludlow 7 January 1918 9 June 1918 23 December 1918 Scrapped by US, 10 March 1931 [38]
DD-113 Rathburne William Cramp & Sons 12 July 1917 27 December 1917 24 June 1918 Scrapped by US, November 1946 [39]
DD-114 Talbot 12 July 1917 20 February 1918 20 July 1918 Scrapped by US, 30 January 1946 [40] Archived 8 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
DD-115 Waters 26 July 1917 3 March 1918 8 August 1918 Scrapped by US, 10 May 1946 [41] Archived 25 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
DD-116 Dent 30 August 1917 23 March 1918 9 September 1918 Scrapped by US, 13 June 1946 [42]
DD-117 Dorsey 18 September 1917 9 April 1918 16 September 1918 Hulk was destroyed, 1 January 1946 [43]
DD-118 Lea 18 September 1917 29 April 1918 2 October 1918 Scrapped by US, 30 November 1946 [44]
DD-119 Lamberton Newport News Shipbuilding 1 October 1917 30 March 1918 22 August 1918 Scrapped by US, 9 May 1947 [45]
DD-120 Radford 2 October 1917 5 April 1918 30 September 1918 Sunk as target, 5 August 1936 [46]
DD-121 Montgomery 2 October 1917 5 April 1918 30 September 1918 Scrapped by US, 11 March 1946 [47]
DD-122 Breese 10 November 1917 11 May 1918 23 October 1918 Scrapped by US, 16 May 1946 [48] Archived 21 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine
DD-123 Gamble 12 November 1917 11 May 1918 29 November 1918 Sunk by scuttling, 16 July 1945 [49]
DD-124 Ramsay 21 December 1917 8 June 1918 15 February 1919 Scrapped by US, 21 November 1946 [50]
DD-125 Tattnall New York Shipbuilding 1 December 1917 5 September 1918 26 June 1919 Scrapped by US, 17 October 1946 [51] Archived 8 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
DD-126 Badger 9 January 1918 24 August 1918 29 May 1919 Scrapped by US, 30 November 1945 [52] Archived 24 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
DD-127 Twiggs 23 January 1918 28 September 1918 28 July 1919 Scrapped by UK, 26 July 1951 [53] Archived 3 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
DD-128 Babbitt 19 February 1918 30 September 1918 24 October 1919 Scrapped by US, 5 June 1946 [54] Archived 16 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
DD-129 DeLong 21 February 1918 29 October 1918 20 September 1919 Scrapped, 25 September 1922 [55]
DD-130 Jacob Jones 21 February 1918 20 November 1918 20 October 1919 Sunk in battle, 28 February 1942 [56]
DD-131 Buchanan Bath Iron Works 29 June 1918 2 January 1919 20 January 1919 Destroyed during St. Nazaire Raid, 29 March 1942 [57] Archived 26 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-132 Aaron Ward 11 August 1918 10 April 1919 21 April 1919 Scrapped by US, 1947 [58]
DD-133 Hale 7 October 1918 29 May 1919 12 June 1919 Scrapped by UK, September 1944 [59] Archived 8 May 2005 at the Wayback Machine
DD-134 Crowninshield 5 November 1918 24 July 1919 6 August 1919 Scrapped by UK, 23 June 1949 [60] Archived 16 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
DD-135 Tillman Charleston Navy Yard 29 July 1918 7 July 1918 10 April 1921 Scrapped by UK, 24 July 1945 [61] Archived 8 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
DD-136 Boggs Mare Island Navy Yard 15 November 1917 25 April 1918 23 September 1918 Scrapped by US, 27 November 1946 [62] Archived 26 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
DD-137 Kilty 15 December 1917 25 April 1918 17 December 1918 Scrapped by US, 26 August 1946 [63]
DD-138 Kennison 14 February 1918 8 June 1918 2 April 1919 Scrapped by US, 18 November 1946 [64]
DD-139 Ward 15 May 1918 1 June 1918 24 July 1918 Sunk in battle, 7 December 1944 [65]
DD-140 Claxton 25 April 1918 14 January 1919 13 September 1919 Scrapped by UK, 26 June 1944 [66] Archived 27 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-141 Hamilton 8 June 1918 15 January 1919 7 November 1919 Scrapped by US, 21 November 1946 [67]
DD-142 Tarbell William Cramp & Sons 31 December 1917 28 May 1918 27 November 1918 Scrapped by US, 30 November 1945 [68] Archived 8 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
DD-143 Yarnall 12 February 1918 19 June 1918 29 November 1918 Scrapped by UK, 23 August 1952 [69] Archived 17 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-144 Upshur 19 February 1918 4 July 1918 23 December 1918 Scrapped by US, April 1948 [70] Archived 17 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-145 Greer 24 February 1918 1 August 1918 31 December 1918 Scrapped by US, 30 November 1945 [71] Archived 13 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
DD-146 Elliot 23 February 1918 4 July 1918 25 January 1919 Scrapped by US, 29 January 1946 [72]
DD-147 Roper 19 March 1918 17 August 1918 15 February 1919 Scrapped by US, 31 March 1946 [73]
DD-148 Breckinridge 11 March 1918 17 August 1918 27 February 1919 Scrapped by US, 31 October 1946 [74] Archived 20 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-149 Barney 26 March 1918 5 September 1918 14 March 1919 Scrapped by US, 13 October 1946 [75] Archived 20 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-150 Blakeley 26 March 1918 19 September 1918 8 May 1919 Scrapped by US, 30 November 1945 [76] Archived 20 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-151 Biddle 22 April 1918 3 October 1918 22 April 1919 Scrapped by US, 3 December 1946 [77] Archived 7 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
DD-152 Du Pont 2 May 1918 22 October 1918 30 April 1919 Scrapped by US, 12 March 1947 [78]
DD-153 Bernadou 4 June 1918 7 November 1918 19 May 1919 Scrapped by US, 30 November 1945 [79] Archived 7 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine
DD-154 Ellis 8 July 1918 30 November 1918 7 June 1919 Scrapped by US, 17 July 1947 [80]
DD-155 Cole 25 June 1918 11 January 1919 19 June 1919 Scrapped by US, 6 October 1947 [81]
DD-156 J. Fred Talbott 8 July 1918 14 December 1918 30 June 1919 Scrapped by US, 22 December 1946 [82]
DD-157 Dickerson New York Shipbuilding 25 May 1918 12 March 1919 3 September 1919 Sunk by scuttling following an attack, 4 April 1945 [83] Archived 28 February 2004 at the Wayback Machine
DD-158 Leary 6 March 1918 18 December 1918 5 December 1919 Sunk in battle, 24 December 1943 [84]
DD-159 Schenck 26 March 1918 23 April 1919 30 October 1919 Scrapped by US, 25 November 1946 [85]
DD-160 Herbert 9 April 1918 8 May 1919 21 November 1919 Scrapped by US, 23 May 1946 [86]
DD-161 Palmer Fore River Shipyard 29 May 1918 18 August 1918 22 November 1918 Sunk in battle, 7 January 1945 [87] Archived 26 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
DD-162 Thatcher 8 June 1918 31 August 1918 14 January 1919 Scrapped by UK, 1946 [88] Archived 26 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
DD-163 Walker 19 June 1918 14 September 1918 31 January 1919 Sunk by scuttling, 28 December 1941 [89]
DD-164 Crosby 23 June 1918 28 September 1918 24 January 1919 Scrapped by US, 23 May 1946 [90]
DD-165 Meredith 26 June 1918 22 September 1918 29 January 1919 Scrapped by US, 29 September 1936 [91]
DD-166 Bush 4 July 1918 27 October 1918 19 February 1919 Scrapped by US, 8 September 1936 [92] Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-167 Cowell 15 July 1918 23 November 1918 17 March 1919 Scrapped by UK, 28 February 1949 [93] Archived 13 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-168 Maddox 20 July 1918 27 October 1918 10 March 1919 Scrapped by UK, 16 September 1952 [94] Archived 25 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
DD-169 Foote 7 August 1918 14 December 1918 21 March 1919 Scrapped by UK, 14 May 1949 [95]
DD-170 Kalk 4 March 1917 21 December 1918 29 March 1919 Scrapped by UK, 1945 [96]
DD-171 Burns Union Iron Works 15 April 1918 4 July 1918 7 August 1919 Scrapped by US, 22 April 1932 [97] Archived 11 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-172 Anthony 18 April 1918 10 August 1918 19 June 1919 Sunk as target, 22 July 1937 [98] Archived 11 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-173 Sproston 20 April 1918 10 August 1918 12 July 1919 Sunk as a target, 20 July 1937 [99]
DD-174 Rizal 26 June 1918 21 September 1918 28 May 1919 Scrapped by US, 25 February 1932 [100]
DD-175 Mackenzie 4 July 1918 29 September 1918 25 July 1919 Scrapped by Canada, 4 June 1945 [101] Archived 25 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine[1][2]
DD-176 Renshaw 8 May 1918 21 September 1918 31 July 1919 Scrapped by US, 29 September 1936 [102]
DD-177 O'Bannon 12 November 1918 28 February 1919 27 August 1919 Scrapped by US, 29 September 1936 [103]
DD-178 Hogan 25 November 1918 12 April 1919 1 October 1919 Sunk as target, 8 November 1945 [104] Archived 28 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-179 Howard 9 December 1918 26 April 1919 29 January 1920 Scrapped by US, 14 June 1946 [105]
DD-180 Stansbury 9 December 1918 16 May 1919 8 January 1920 Scrapped by US, 25 January 1947 [106]
DD-181 Hopewell Newport News Shipbuilding 19 January 1918 8 June 1918 22 March 1919 Sunk in battle, 19 August 1941 [107] Archived 12 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-182 Thomas 23 March 1918 4 July 1918 25 April 1919 Scrapped by UK, 28 February 1949 [108]
DD-183 Haraden 30 March 1918 4 July 1918 7 June 1919 Scrapped by UK, August 1945 [109] Archived 12 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
DD-184 Abbot 5 April 1918 4 July 1918 19 July 1919 Scrapped by UK, 1947 [110] Archived 17 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine
DD-185 Bagley 11 May 1918 19 October 1918 27 August 1919 Scrapped by UK, 1945 [111] Archived 12 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine

References

  1. ^ DANFS has a typo - completion date before launch date.
  2. ^ "Destroyer Photo Index DD-175 USS MAC KENZIE".