The first Sterett, DD-27 (1910 -1919)

The first USS Sterett was a three stack, modified Paulding class destroyer, often referred to as "flivvers".
Builder - Fore River Shipbuilding Company,  Fore River Shipyard,  Quincy, MA	Listed as Hull No. 176 in yard's early production history	Haze Gray Listing
Keel laid down 22-Mar-1909
Launched 12-May-1910	Read local news coverage at time of the Christening	Christening Centennial
Commissioned 15-Dec-1910
Decommissioned 9-Dec-1919
Stricken on 8-Mar-1935.

 

She was 293 feet long with a 26 foot beam and 16 foot draft. DD-27 displaced 742 tons. Her oil-fired 12,000 shp (shaft horse power) power plant consisted of four boilers driving twin screws via steam turbines. STERETT had a top speed of 29.5 knots and carried a crew of four officers and 82 enlisted men.  STERETT was armed with five three-inch guns, three .50 caliber machine guns and six 18-inch torpedo tubes. Her distinctive three funnels distinguished her from the rest of the four funnel destroyers of the time. 

 

[ Home ] [ Up ]