DD-27

The first USS Sterett was a three stack, modified Paulding class destroyer, often referred to as "flivvers".; Builder - Bethlehem Steel, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, MA; Keel laid down 22-Mar-1909; Launched 12-May-1910; 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.