Bainbridge-class destroyer

USS Bainbridge
Class overview
Name	Bainbridge class
Builders	Various
Operators	United States Navy
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	Truxtun class
Subclasses	Hopkins Lawrence Paul Jones Stewart
Built	1899–1903
In commission	1902–1919
Completed	13
Lost	1
Retired	12
General characteristics
Type	Torpedo Boat Destroyer
Displacement	420 long tons (427 t) (normal) 630 long tons (640 t) (full load)
Length	250 ft (76 m)
Beam	23 ft 1 in (7.04 m)
Draft	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Installed power	4 × coal-fired Thornycroft boilers 8,000 ihp (6,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × vertical triple-expansion engines 2 × propellers
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph) (as designed)
Capacity	213 long tons (216 t) coal (fuel)
Complement	3 officers 72 enlisted men
Armament	2 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber guns 5 × 6 pounder (57 mm (2.2 in)) guns 2 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, four torpedoes

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.