Bainbridge-class destroyer

USS Bainbridge
USS Bainbridge
Class overview
NameBainbridge class
BuildersVarious
Operators United States Navy
Preceded byNone
Succeeded byTruxtun class
Subclasses
  • Hopkins
  • Lawrence
  • Paul Jones
  • Stewart
Built1899–1903
In commission1902–1919
Completed13
Lost1
Retired12
General characteristics
TypeTorpedo Boat Destroyer
Displacement
  • 420 long tons (427 t) (normal)
  • 630 long tons (640 t) (full load)
Length250 ft (76 m)
Beam23 ft 1 in (7.04 m)
Draft6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Installed power
Propulsion
Speed29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) (as designed)
Capacity213 long tons (216 t) coal (fuel)
Complement
  • 3 officers
  • 72 enlisted men
Armament

The Bainbridge-class destroyers were a class of United States Navy Torpedo Boat Destroyers (TBDs) built between 1899 and 1903. The first class so designated, they comprised the first 13 of 16 TBDs authorized by Congress in 1898 following the Spanish–American War (the remaining three authorised comprised the Truxtun-class destroyers). One ship of the class was lost at sea during service in World War I: Chauncey, which collided with the British merchant ship SS Rose in 1917. The balance were decommissioned in 1919 and sold postwar in 1920, eleven to Joseph G. Hitner of Philadelphia, and the Hopkins to the Denton Shore Lumber Company in Tampa, Florida.