USS Clemson - Guide 055 (Human Voice)

The Clemson class, destroyers of the United States Navy, are today's subject.

Next on the list:
-Kongo class
-St Louis class
-HMS Caroline
-All-big-gun designs
-USS Oregon
-Gascogne
-Alsace
-Lyon and Normandie classes
-Leander class
-HMS Ajax
-Project 1047
-Battle class
-Daring class
-USS Indianapolis
-Atago/Takao
-Midway class
-Graf Zeppelin
-Bathurst class
-RHS Queen Olga
-HMS Belfast
-Aurora
-Imperator Nikolai I
-USS Helena
-USS Tennesse
-HMNZS New Zealand
-HMS Queen Mary
-USS Marblehead
-New York class
-L-20e
-Abdiel class
-Panserskib (Armoured ship) Rolf Krake
-HMS Victoria
-HMS Charybdis
-Eidsvold class
-IJN “Special” DD's
-SMS Emden
-Ships of Battle of Campeche
-USS England (DE-635)
-Tashkent
-1934A Class
-HMS Plym (K271)
-Siegfried class

[benlaskowski]

The Borie's captain, after they got stuck on the U405, shouted this over the speakers:
"ALL HANDS, STAND BY TO REPEL BOARDERS!"
This order hadn't been heard on an American warship since the War of 1812.

[BHuang]

Congress: We need 10 destroyers!
Navy: We need 50 destroyers!
Manufacturers: We'll gonna build 100 destroyers!

[nicholas]

Ah the Clemson, best tier 4 sealclubber. So much so that I preferred it to the tier 5 US DD despite it sharing my name.

[jlvfr]

20th century; we now have all the moderns, so we can...
USN: *_Ramming Speed_* !! *Boarding action* !!

[TheSchultinator]

Guys, something's wrong with Drach! He made a 5-minute guide that was actually close to 5 minutes long!!

[willrogers]

USS Borie: *Rams U405 and becomes stuck*

U405’s crew: “Now you’ve done it, you damned crazy *several seconds of scathing invective and angry German noises.* Brilliant move, please, enlighten us about the next phase of your master plan!”

USS Borie’s crew: “A WELL-REGULATED MILITIA BEING NECESSARY TO THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE, THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!”

[MrMomotaro]

Glad to see this. My Dad served on a Clemson class boat in WWII. He was aboard the USS Montgomery Sicard (DD346/DM-21/AG-100). He went aboard in 1943 at Guadalcanal (he was 18) and he became ships clerk. The Sicard had been converted to a mine layer in 1937 and that was what they did. He was still aboard when she was reclassified as auxilliary and he sailed her to the Philidelphia navy yard when the war was over and she was decommissioned and then sold for scrap.

[jameshickman]

I love the four-pipers.
The Campbelltown has already been mentioned, but I think its life and death deserve a separate discussion.
There is a movie from the thirties, "Devil Dogs of the Navy." It is one of a series intended to encourage enlistment. ("Devil Dogs of the...Marines...Air"...maybe other titles.). This movie featured a number of scenes shot onboard a four-piper.
Of course, the novel "The Caine Mutiny" was set on a flush-decker converted to minesweeping.
Finally, a number (four?) were sold into commercial service. Their hulls were gutted and their superstructures cut down. They were fitted with diesel engines, deckhouses that made them look like really long tugboats and a forest of ventilators. They were used as high speed transports, carrying bananas from South America to the US. The ventilators were positioned to force air through the holds, keeping the bananas from spoiling.

Let's be careful out there.

[Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

5:23 Ah, yes, when all else fails, time to exercise the 2nd Amendment to them Gerries

[christianm.]

Too sad, no clemson survived as a museum ship.

I would love to see the footage of the clemson blown to pieces. No CGI back then.

[kpdubbs]

Hey Drach, Youtube recommended a couple of your videos to me a few months back. After I realized those awesome videos were from the same source, I subscribed and started watching from the beginning. So after binging for 3 months, today I am finally watching them as they come out. Almost didn't make it though as that previous Drydock was FIVE AND HALF HOURS LONG (watched in one sitting, though did use the music breaks to use the head once or twice). You do amazing work. Your videos are very informative, with a lot of passion and touch of humor to keep the audience engaged. As long as you keep doing videos I will keep watching. Thank you!

[j.e.v.]

I remember my first games as a kid - Destroyer Command. They had mostly Clemson class ships in missions.

[sarjim]

The _Clemson_ class were not only very uncomfortable due to constant rolling in any kind of sea, but they were also unsafe for her crews. The very finely pointed stern made the depth charge racks hang perilously over the stern, and the four props that were completely exposed killed a number sailors lost overboard while engaged in depth charge operations. This was in spite of the massive prop guards clearly visible in any stern photo of a _Clemson_ . The design was chosen in a bid for the highest speed on the least possible displacement because, as usual, our Congress refused to provide the funds for a larger design with higher output engines on about a thousand tons more displacement.

[graff]

My father. Torpedo Mate 1st class, served on the USS John D. Ford, DD228. He is mentioned in a book by the daughter of one of his two best friends on the Ford, Ramona Holmes. I grew up on stories of this great ship of the Clemson class.

[mochaholic]

I recall reading this incident during Guadalcanal involving two Clemsons, whose names I've forgotten-- they had their weaponry removed and ammo storage converted into cargo space and put into service as high speed transports to go back and fro between the islands, that aside those mentioned Clemsons were operating silently in the dead silence and darkness of the night when a Japanese destroyer force showed up and starting shelling land targets and failed to detect those unarmed Clemsons nearby, the Clemsons' captains planned to use the darkness to slip away silently.

They nearly got away until an idiot pilot flying an Avenger lightship whose mission was to locate enemy ships and illuminate the sea with flares, dropped his entire flare load right above the Clemsons cause he heard shellfire from the Japanese destroyers from his open cockpit and thought this was the approximate location... a mile off target. The flares perfectly illuminated the Clemsons to the Japanese destroyer force, whom then took their sweet time sinking those Clemsons.

Needless to say angry survivors of those Clemsons, after being rescued and taken to Guadalcanal, located the pilot of that Avenger and gave him the most holy beatdown of his life.

[jebsails]

Among my family heirlooms was a watch engraved USS McCormick DD223. It performed convoy duty in the eastern Atlantic and Caribbean. Later learned it was presented the ships last CO. After WWII he was stationed in Newport RI. One of my aunts was a McCormick so it may have been given to her. Narragansett Bay

[joshthomas-moore]

5:27 that german crewman was having a real bad day

[tonywest]

Perfect timing, just finished Sunday's rather large dry dock episode

[paulsakz]

Even the Japanese got in on using one. The USS Stewart sunk in port was raised and used by the Japanese until being "repatriated" by the US again at the end of the war. ( Probably will have its own video at some point knowing this channel LOL ) I'd like to give due credit... The Stewart has indeed its own video now... LOL Thx Drach

[lone-wolf]

In my opinion, I think the wickes class destroyers, would of been a perfect pairing ship with the fletchers. One Wickes per one Fletcher, especially since we had so many of them! One is more torpedo boat, and the other is more of a gunboat, the Wickes could protect the fletchers from submarine with their torpedoes, and the fletchers could protect the Wickes with their guns! Just fun to think about!