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CLASS - CLEMSON
Basic repeat Wickes Class, with 35% more fuel capacity to improve endurance problems.
Designed radius was 4900 nautical miles at 15 Knots.
Launched November 6 1919 and Commissioned April 23 1920.
Reclassified Auxiliary AG-117 June 30 1945.
Decommissioned November 9 1945.
Stricken December 5 1945.
Fate: Sold and broken up for scrap in 1946.
Displacement 1,215 Tons.
Dimensions, 314' 5" (oa) x 31' 8" x 9' 10" (Max)
Armament 4 x 4"/50, 1 x 3"/23AA, 12 x 21" tt.
Machinery, 26,500 SHP; Geared Turbines, 2 screws.
Speed, 35 Knots.
Crew 114.
Having departed New York on 10 July 1943, DD 217 Whipple escorted a group of ships which rendezvoused with a convoy bound for