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- Town-class_destroyer length "95707.2".
- Town-class_destroyer abstract "The Town-class destroyers were warships transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy in exchange for military bases in the Bahamas and elsewhere, as outlined in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between Britain and United States, signed on 2 September 1940. They were known as "four-pipers" or "four-stackers" because they had four smokestacks (funnels). Later classes of destroyers typically had one or two.Some went to the Royal Canadian Navy at the outset. Others went on to the Royal Norwegian Navy, the Royal Netherlands Navy, and the Soviet Navy after serving with the Royal Navy. Although given a set of names by the Commonwealth navies that suggested they were one class they actually came from three classes of destroyer: Caldwell, Wickes, and Clemson. Town class refers to the Admiralty renaming these ships after towns common to the United States and the British Commonwealth. Ships initially commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy, however, followed the Canadian practice of giving destroyers the names of Canadian rivers. The rivers selected for the town class were on the border between Canada and the United States, with the exception of the Nova Scotia river sharing the name of the United States Naval Academy location.One of the Towns achieved lasting fame: HMS Campbeltown (ex-USS Buchanan). In the Commando raid Operation Chariot, Campbeltown, fitted with a large demolition charge, rammed the Normandie Lock at Saint-Nazaire, France. The charge detonated on 29 March 1942, breaching the drydock and destroying Campbeltown, thus destroying the only drydock on the Atlantic coast capable of accepting the German battleship Tirpitz. This exploit was depicted in the 1950 Trevor Howard film The Gift Horse, which starred HMS Leamington (ex-USS Twiggs) after her return from service in Russia.".
- Town-class_destroyer length "95.7072".
- Town-class_destroyer shipBeam "9.144".
- Town-class_destroyer thumbnail USSTwiggsDD127.jpg?width=300.
- Town-class_destroyer type Destroyer.
- Town-class_destroyer wikiPageID "1002513".
- Town-class_destroyer wikiPageRevisionID "570065858".
- Town-class_destroyer builders "Various".
- Town-class_destroyer builtRange "1917".
- Town-class_destroyer hasPhotoCollection Town-class_destroyer.
- Town-class_destroyer inCommissionRange "1940".
- Town-class_destroyer name "Town-class destroyer".
- Town-class_destroyer operators "* * * * *".
- Town-class_destroyer shipArmament "*3 x 4"/50 cal *1 x 3"/23 AA * 2 x triple 21-inch torpedo tubes".
- Town-class_destroyer shipBeam "30".
- Town-class_destroyer shipComplement "146".
- Town-class_destroyer shipDisplacement "* 1,020 to 1,190 tons".
- Town-class_destroyer shipDraught "9.0".
- Town-class_destroyer shipLength "314".
- Town-class_destroyer shipPropulsion "*4x300 psi unsuperheated Boilers *2 geared turbines".
- Town-class_destroyer shipSpeed "30".
- Town-class_destroyer shipType Destroyer.
- Town-class_destroyer subclasses Caldwell-class_destroyer.
- Town-class_destroyer subclasses Clemson-class_destroyer.
- Town-class_destroyer subclasses Wickes-class_destroyer.
- Town-class_destroyer totalShipsCompleted "50".
- Town-class_destroyer totalShipsLost "10".
- Town-class_destroyer totalShipsPreserved "0".
- Town-class_destroyer totalShipsRetired "40".
- Town-class_destroyer subject Category:Battle_of_the_Atlantic.
- Town-class_destroyer subject Category:Destroyer_classes.
- Town-class_destroyer subject Category:North_Atlantic_convoys_of_World_War_II.
- Town-class_destroyer subject Category:Soviet_Union–United_Kingdom_relations.
- Town-class_destroyer subject Category:Town-class_destroyers.
- Town-class_destroyer type MeanOfTransportation.
- Town-class_destroyer type Ship.
- Town-class_destroyer type Product.
- Town-class_destroyer type DesignedArtifact.
- Town-class_destroyer comment "The Town-class destroyers were warships transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy in exchange for military bases in the Bahamas and elsewhere, as outlined in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between Britain and United States, signed on 2 September 1940. They were known as "four-pipers" or "four-stackers" because they had four smokestacks (funnels).".
- Town-class_destroyer label "Classe Town (destroyer)".
- Town-class_destroyer label "Town-class destroyer".
- Town-class_destroyer label "タウン級駆逐艦".
- Town-class_destroyer sameAs Classe_Town_(destroyer).
- Town-class_destroyer sameAs タウン級駆逐艦.
- Town-class_destroyer sameAs m.03y94d.
- Town-class_destroyer sameAs Q2976015.
- Town-class_destroyer sameAs Q2976015.
- Town-class_destroyer wasDerivedFrom Town-class_destroyer?oldid=570065858.
- Town-class_destroyer depiction USSTwiggsDD127.jpg.
- Town-class_destroyer isPrimaryTopicOf Town-class_destroyer.
