Tucker-class destroyer

The Tucker class of destroyers was a class of six ships designed by and built for the United States Navy shortly before the United States entered the First World War, the fourth of five classes of thousand-tonners. The General Board wanted a larger ship that could serve as a scout, with more than twice the displacement of any earlier American destroyer, and the Bureau of Construction and Repair produced an incremental development of the O'Brien class. Four yards built the ships, Bath Iron Works, Fore River, New York Shipbuilding and Cramp, and they were commissioned between July 1915 and May 1916. Most had two direct-drive steam turbines and a geared cruising turbine, while Wadsworth, with only geared steam turbines, was the first American destroyer so equipped and influenced later designs. Jacob Jones was sunk by U-58 in 1917 and the rest were sold for scrapping by 1936. Bath Iron Works in Maine built one, Wadsworth.