USS Buchanan (DD-131), 1936

The term four piper, also known as a[1] four stacker, is United States Navy terminology for classes of destroyers with four funnels. These include the classes listed below:

These classes were built for use by the United States Navy during World War I and subsequently "moth-balled". Fifty were loaned, under the Destroyers-for-bases deal to the United Kingdom when convoy escorts were desperately needed in the early years of World War II.

References

  1. ↑ "USS Truxtun: Crew – Dead Reckoning: The Pollux-Truxtun Disaster".


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