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DD-57 USS TUCKER

CLASS - TUCKER (Improved O' BRIEN Class) As Built.
Displacement 1,090 Tons, Dimensions, 315' 3" (oa) x 29' 11" x 10' 5" (Max)
Armament 4 x 4"/50, 8 x 21" tt..
Machinery, 17,000 SHP; Direct Drive Turbines With Cruising Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 29.5 Knots, Crew 99.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Fore River, Quincy on November 9 1914.
Launched May 4 1915 and commissioned April 11 1916.
Tucker was placed into reserve at Philadelphia in October 1919 and
decommissioned there on May 16 1921 and berthed there until
Loaned to the Coast Guard as CG-23 on March 25 1926 and returned
June 30 1933.Tucker gave up her name to new construction on November 1 1933.
Stricken October 24 1936.
Fate Sold December 10 1936 and broken up for scrap.
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Tucker 132kUSS Tucker (Destroyer # 57) Under construction at the Fore River Shipbuilding Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, on 1 January 1915. Visible in the left background is USS Cushing (Destroyer # 55), which was launched on 16 January 1915. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.Fred Weiss
Tucker 88kUSS Tucker (Destroyer # 57) color-tinted photograph printed on a postal card, showing the destroyer underway in 1916 or 1917. Photographed by O.W. Waterman, and published by the Detroit Publishing Company in 1917-1918. Note the World War I "Authorized by Censor" inscription printed at the top. The original postal card was postmarked at Lynn, Massachusetts, on 12 June 1918. Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1983. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Paul Rebold
Tucker 88kUSS Tucker (Destroyer # 57) Underway while running trials, circa 19 March 1916. Note the ice accumulated amidships. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Tucker 77kMaking 30.03 knots on trials, 19 March 1916. Note the ice accumulated amidships. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Fred Weiss
Tucker 53kCirca 1919, location unknown.Robert Hurst
Tucker 18kPort bow as completed. USN
Tucker 17kOn Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era, from the Official Coast Guard Website. Mike Green
Cassin 137kCoast Guard destroyers Tucker (left) and the Cassin (right) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era, from the Official Coast Guard Website.Mike Green
Cassin 101kOn Coast Guard service during the Prohibition Era, from the Official Coast Guard Website.Mike Green
USS TUCKER DD-57 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Tin Can Sailors Website
Destroyer History Foundation
Destroyers Online Website
Official U.S.Navy Destroyer Website

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