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		The primary feature differentiating the two classes was the provision for oil bunkers to the sides of the boiler rooms in the Clemson class, with hopes of remedying the problematic situation in the Wickes class of widely varying endurances.
		Fourteen destroyers were rebuilt as seaplane tenders in 1938-1940, losing two boilers in favour of aviation-fuel storage; another four were converted to fast minelayers in 1930-1937, and nine to fast minesweepers in 1940-1942.
		The centreline mounts used in the previous destroyer classes had by necessity (in order for the torpedoes to clear the main deck when fired) been emplaced rather high in the ship, leading to failures upon their impact on the surface; therefore, the main deck emplacement was to be favoured.
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	Wickes.EBbNX.ß‘ã¢EÍ‘D—“TThe Encyclopedia of World ,Modern Warships.
		Wickes and her sister ships patrolled alternately in the Yucatan Channel between the east coast of Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula and in the passage between Florida and the west coast of Cuba.
		Wickes was thus reassigned to the 7th Fleet and earmarked for participation in the assault on the island of Leyte.
		Wickes destroyed one mine with gunfire and was about to destroy others when minesweepers arrived on the scene and relieved the destroyer of that duty.
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	USS Cole
		Two United States Navy destroyers have borne the name USS Cole.
		The first USS Cole (DD-155) was a Wickes-class destroyer[?].
		On October 12, 2000 it was attacked and damaged by suicide bombers using a small inflatable boat.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Cole.html (50 words)

	USS Cole (DD-155)
		The first USS Cole (DD-155) was a Wickes-class destroyer[?] launched 11 January 1919, by William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sponsored by Mrs.
		She put to sea from Norfolk 24 October for the invasion of North Africa on 8 November during which she landed 175 men of the 47th Infantry under fire on a pier at Safi, Morocco[?].
		Along with patrol and escort duties in the Western Mediterranean Cole took part in the invasion of Sicily 10 July 1943, acting with a British submarine as a beach identification group, and later guarded transports during the assault on Salerno 9 September.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Cole_(DD-155).html (571 words)

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		Except for a period in reserve between August 1920 and June 1921, the destroyer was active along the West Coast until she was decommissioned in June 1922.
		In fleet destroyers, for example, one of the forward 5" mounts would have been due for removal if a Hedgehog was to be installed; this, among other reasons, caused Hedgehog in the U.S. Navy to be exclusively fitted to destroyer escorts and license-built British frigates and ASW refits of flush-deck destroyers.
		The destroyer got underway immediately with her valuable supercargo settled in a tent on her forecastle and arrived Great Bitter Lake on the 15th.
	www.njscuba.net /sites/site_warships.html (6589 words)

	Wickes class destroyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Wickes-class destroyers were built as a result of 1916 Congressional funding to build a "fleet second to none".
		The basic requirement for the class was a possible speed of 35 knots.
		A number of this class were transferred to Britain in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/w/wi/wickes_class_destroyer.html (90 words)

	DD-75 Wickes class
		Part of the orders called for the ten Omaha class light cruisers, another for six Constellation class battlecruisers (later to become the foundation for Lexington and Saratoga), and the new destroyer class was to operate with these ships, necessitating a maximum speed resmbling theirs - roughly 35 knots.
		In the late 1920s, those Wickes class ships built to the Bethlehem design (a total of 60) were scrapped as their Yarrow-type boilers were used up and re-boilering them was a pointless endeavour.
		Decommissioning most Wickes class ships in the 1930s, as the new destroyers arrived in sufficient numbers to replace the old, and by-now obsolete, destroyers.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/ships/destroyers/wickes.htm (815 words)

	LemaireSoft's Wickes: global (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		To be exhaustive with the Wickes, you must add up the variants: the Wickes proprer, the Tattnall, the Little and the Lamberton.
		Some Wickes were effectively used during World War I but most of them were completed too late and blocked any new constructions of destroyers for the next 15 years in the USA.
		A British Wickes was the first of the 15 victims of the war (the Bath, sunk by a U-boat).
	www.lemaire.happyhost.org /ship/classe1/533.html (262 words)

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		This outstanding class was the largest class of destroyers ever built with 175 hulls being commissioned.
		The Fletcher Class was one of the pre-eminent destroyer classes of all time and the mainstay of the WWII destroyer fleet.
		They were the largest destroyers of their day (over 900 tons heavier than the Gleaves class, standard weight) and were the first destroyers equipped with radar.
	www.allwoodwings.com /Ships/Military/Destroyers/DD-445,FletcherClass.htm (749 words)

	Destroyer - USN "Wickes" Class
		The U.S. started to built up a destroyer force during WW I - the Wickes, Clemson and Caldwell class also known as "flushdeckers" or "4-stack destroyers".
		The Wickes and Clemson were quite identical unless the 100 ts additional displacement of the Clemson class.
		DD 131 - commissioned as USS Buchanan; was among the 50 destroyers ceded to the Royal Navy in 1940 (Lend Lease Agreeement) to boost the escort fleet; renamed Campbeltown; became famous due to the St. Nazaire raid in March 1942
	homepages.fh-giessen.de /~hg6339/data/us/destroyers/1917_cdd_wickes-class.htm (185 words)

	USS Philip (DD-76) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The first USS Philip (DD–76) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Lancaster.
		For the instruction of NROTC classes in the year 1931, she made many departures from Staten Island for the New England coast, Bermuda operating area, and Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Tangier Sound and Quantico, Virginia, before returning to New York.
		She decommissioned at Destroyer Base, San Diego, 2 April 1937, and recommissioned 30 September 1939 for duty with Division 64, Atlantic Squadron, which operated on neutrality patrol in the vicinity of Key West, Florida.
	www.tocatch.info /en/HMS_Lancaster_(G05).htm (774 words)

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		Destroyers and other craft were used to ferry people out to the troopship.
		Worse, both of these classes of destroyers were known as ‘fuel hogs’ because their consumption rate was higher than any other class of ship in RCN service.
		The explosion destroyed the stern, blew away the #4 hatch cover and the mainmast, stopped the engines and caused the ship to sink by the stern with a heavy starboard list after four minutes.
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	USS Crowninshield (DD-134) - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		USS Crowninshield (DD–134) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I.
		Recommissioned 30 September 1939, Crowinshield sailed from Mare Island 25 November and arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 10 December for duty with the Neutrality Patrol in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
		On 9 September 1940 she was decommisisoned at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and delivered to British authorities in the land bases for destroyers exchange.
	tscholars.com /encyclopedia/HMS_Chelsea_(I35) (660 words)

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		The H class destroyer, was built by Scotts,at Greenock and launched 23rd March 1936.
		In May Hotspur with the cruiser HMS Ajax and the destroyers HMS Havock and HMS Imperial, shelled the harbour of Benghazi and two steamers were also sunk to the south of the harbour.
		On June 6th, Hotspur, the destroyer HMS Isis and the assault ship Glengyle left Port Said with a Commando party, on the 9th, they were landed near Tyre in Syria to capture an important bridge behind the French troops lines.
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	USS Little (DD-79) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The first USS Little (DD—79) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I and World War II as ADP-4.
		She escorted the President’s party back into New York 6 to 8 July, and then engaged in tactical exercises, She was transferred to Reserve Status with ComDesRon 3 at Philadelphia 17 November where she remained until 4 January 1921.
		Though outgunned, Little opened fire on enemy destroyers, Yudachi, Hatsuyuki and Murakumo, but took direct hits from salvos which left her helpless and ablaze by 0115.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/USS_Little_(DD-79) (717 words)

	Wickes class destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wickes-class destroyers were American destroyers built to create "a fleet second to none".
		The basic requirement for the class was a possible speed of 35 knots.
		A number of this class were transferred to the United Kingdom in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wickes_class_destroyer (854 words)

	A sailor, his ship and the Panama Canal Zone
		Buchanan was decommissioned in April 1937, as newer destroyers entered the Fleet, but was brought back to active duty at the end of September 1939 after the outbreak of World War II in Europe caused the United States to enlarge the Navy for neutrality enforcement purposes.
		After spending a few months as an escort in the Western Approaches to the British Isles, she was assigned to the Royal Netherlands Navy in January 1941.
		After returning to the R.N. in September 1941 the destroyer escorted shipping in the Atlantic, where she saw action against German submarines and aircraft.
	www.czimages.com /CZMemories/buchanan/buchanan_index.htm (443 words)

	DD-186 Clemson class
		Fourteen destroyers were rebuild as seaplane tenders in 1938-1940, losing two boilers in favor of aviation-fuel storage; another four were converted to fast minelayers in 1930-1937, and nine to fast minesweepers in 1940-1942.
		Eleven Clemson class destroyers and two seaplane carrier conversions were serving with the Asiatic Fleet in 1941, providing valuable service and making the first U.S. torpedo attack at Balikpapan.
		Five of their number, all destroyers, were lost, with Steward afterwards seeing service in the Imperial Japanese Navy as a patrol boat.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/ships/destroyers/clemson.htm (360 words)

	USN Ships--USS Philip (Destroyer # 76, later DD-76)
		USS Philip, a 1060-ton Wickes class destroyer built at Bath, Maine, was commissioned in August 1918.
		As with many of her sister "flush-deck" destroyers, Philip was placed back in commission in September 1939, soon after World War II broke out in Europe.
		In October 1940 USS Philip was decommissioned at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and transferred to Great Britain as part of an agreement that gave the British fifty badly-needed destroyers and gained Western Hemisphere bases for the U.S. As HMS Lancaster she served in the Royal Navy until 1945.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/dd76.htm (894 words)

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		When Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the destroyer was moored in a nest of ships undergoing overhaul and, as her guns were dismantled, was able to do little besides reply with small arms fire.
		Her overhaul was rushed to completion; and, on 20 December, she took up a patrol station off the channel approaching Pearl Harbor.
		During this operation, a Japanese reinforcement group belatedly arrived on the scene and, in retiring, sank destroyer, Strong, with a long-range torpedo shot.
	www.heartcreators.net /angeldenoir/dad2-ship-schley.html (1148 words)

	Moody
		The destroyer was decommissioned 27 September 1923, with Lt. E.
		The destroyer was struck from the Navy list 3 November and scrapped in accordance with the London Treaty limiting naval armaments.
		She was headed for the breaking yard when MGM purchased her for about $35,000 for a movie based on the Commodore Edward Ellsberg's "Pig Boats" which became the 1933 movie "Hell Below" starring Robert Montgomery and Jimmy Durante.
	www.cawreckdivers.org /Wrecks/moody.htm (1056 words)

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		Two United States Navy destroyers have borne the name
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		From 3 February to 14 August 1934, the ship was again...14 August 1934, the ship was again reduced to the rotating reserve squadron.
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	USS Ward (DD-139) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		USS Ward (DD-139) was a 1247-ton Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later APD-16 in World War II.
		Ward was named in honor of Commander James H. Ward, USN, (1806-1861), the first U.S. Navy officer to be killed in action during the American Civil War.
		Ward was built at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/USS_Ward (624 words)

	USS Bernadou (DD-153), Wickes-class destroyer in World War II
		USS Bernadou, DD 153, was launched 7 November 1918 by William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; sponsored by Miss Cora Winslow Bernadou, Commander Bernadou’s sister; and commissioned 19 May 1919, Lieutenant Commander L. Farley in command.
		Out of service September 1936-October 1939, she then rejoined the fleet for service with Destroyer Division 6, Atlantic Squadron, on Neutrality Patrol.
		She helped convoy the Marines to Iceland (1-7 July 1941) and, except for one crossing to Britain, remained on the Newfoundland-Iceland convoy run until the fall of 1942.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /flushdeck/ussbernadou (348 words)

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