Four piper

Four piper

The term four piper is United States Navy terminology for classes of destroyers with four funnels. These include the classes listed below:

* Bainbridge class destroyer
* Paulding class destroyers
* Wickes class destroyer
* Clemson class destroyer

Later destroyers (typically employing forced draft) would combine boiler exhaust piping into fewer funnels:
* Mahan class destroyer
* Gridley class destroyer
* Gearing class destroyer
* Forrest Sherman class destroyer
* Arleigh Burke class destroyer

External links

* [http://home.gci.net/~fourpiperdestroyer/html/ships.htm Four Piper Destroyer Organization, 2005, "General Specifications"]


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