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Smith-class destroyer
USS Smith (DD-17)
USS Smith (DD-17)
Class overview
Name: Smith-class destroyer
Operators: US flag 48 stars United States Navy
Preceded by: Truxtun class destroyer
Succeeded by: Paulding class destroyer
In commission: 1909–1919
Completed: 5
Retired: 5
Preserved: 0
General characteristics
Type: Destroyer
Displacement: 700 tons (normal)
902 tons (full load)
Length: 293 ft 10 in
Beam: 26 ft 0 in
Draft: 8 ft 0 in
Propulsion: 4 Boilers
3 Parsons Turbines
10,362 horsepower
Speed: 28.3 knots
Capacity: 298 tons (coal) (fuel)
Complement: 4 Officers
83 Enlisted
Armament: Five 3"/50 caliber rapid fire guns
Three 18" torpedo tubes

The Smith Class destroyers were first ocean-going destroyers in the United States Navy, and the first to be driven by steam turbines instead of the reciprocating engines fitted in the earlier and much smaller sixteen torpedo-boat destroyers ordered in 1896–97.

The first three of the class were ordered under the Act of 29 June 1906 "to have the highest practical speed, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not to exceed seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars each". The remaining pair were ordered under the Act of 7 March 1907 "to have the highest practical speed, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not to exceed eight hundred thousand dollars each". All five ships were built using the basic Smith design. However, Flusser and Reid are sometimes considered to be Flusser-class ships.

Unlike the earlier 16 destroyers, these turbine-driven vessels were triple-screw, and all had two widely-spaced pairs of funnels except for Smith (which had the first and fourth funnels separated from the middle pair). All had one of their 3-in guns removed in 1918, and the latter four vessels were all sold in November 1919 following the end of World War I; the Smith survived another two years.

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