Sampson-class destroyer
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The Sampson-class destroyers served in the United States Navy during World War I. Commissioned in 1916 and 1917, the class was a modification of the O'Brien and Tucker classes, with the number of 21-i
USS Sampson
USS Shaw (DD-68)
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USS Shaw was a Sampson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I. She was later transferred to the United States Coast Guard as CG-22.
Sampson-class destroyer
…were direct drive, all of the class were fitted with geared cruising turbines as in the preceding Tucker class, on one shaft in Allen, Wilkes and Shaw and on both shafts in the others. The Sampson class served in World War I as convoy escorts in the Atlantic. Wilkes and Shaw served in the United States…
USS Shaw (DD-68)
The damaged USN destroyer Shaw at Portsmouth, 1918, and a dazzle-painted armed merchantman