Clemson-class destroyer

	USS Barker in 1928
Class overview
Name	Clemson class
Builders	Bethlehem; Fore River Shipyard, MA (10); Squantum Victory Yard, MA (35); San Franscisco, CA (40); William Cramp & Sons, PA (25); New York Ship, NY (20); Newport News Shipbuilding, VA (14); Mare Island Naval Shipyard, CA (6); Norfolk Naval Shipyard, VA (3); Bath Iron Works, ME (3);
Operators	United States Navy; United States Coast Guard; Royal Navy; Royal Canadian Navy; Soviet Navy; Imperial Japanese Navy;
Preceded by	Wickes class
Succeeded by	Farragut class
Subclasses	Town class
Built	1918–1922
In service	1919–1948
Planned	162
Completed	156
Canceled	6 (DD-200 to DD-205)
Lost	20
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1,215 tons (normal); 1,308 tons (full load);
Length	314 ft 4.5 in (95.822 m)
Beam	30 ft 11.5 in (9.436 m)
Draft	9 ft 4 in (2.84 m)
Propulsion	4 × boilers, 300 psi (2,100 kPa) saturated steam; 2 geared steam turbines; 27,600 hp (20,600 kW); 2 shafts;
Speed	35.5 knots (65.7 km/h; 40.9 mph)
Range	4,900 nmi (9,100 km); @ 15 kn (28 km/h);
Crew	8 officers; 8 chief petty officers; 106 enlisted;
Armament	4 × 4-inch/50 caliber guns (102 mm); 1 × 3-inch/23 caliber gun (76 mm) (anti-aircraft); 12 × 21-inch torpedo tubes (4 × 3) (533 mm);

The Clemson class was a series of 156 destroyers (six more were cancelled and never begun) built at the end of World War I, the majority of which served with the United States Navy from after World War I and through World War II.

The Clemson-class ships were commissioned by the United States Navy from 1919 to 1922, built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, New York Shipbuilding Corporation, William Cramp & Sons, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Bath Iron Works, some quite rapidly. The Clemson class was a minor redesign of the Wickes class for greater fuel capacity and was the last pre-World War II class of flush-deck destroyers to be built for the United States. Until the Fletcher-class destroyer, the Clemsons were the most numerous class of destroyers commissioned in the United States Navy and were known colloquially as "flush-deckers", "four-stackers" or "four-pipers".