Photo contributed by Harry Nielson.
| USS Roper |
| DD-147 |
| (Wickes Class) |
| Laid down: | 19 March 1918 |
| Launched: | 17 August 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 15 February 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 September 1945 |
| Fate: | Sold to Lerner Co., Oakland, CA, for scrap |
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Photo contributed by Harry Nielson.
| The Wickes Class as Constructed | |
| Displacement: | 1,090 tons |
| Length: | 314 feet, 4 inches |
| Beam: | 30 feet, 10 inches |
| Draught: | 9 feet, 2 inches |
| Machinery: | four White-Foster boilers; two shaft Parsons turbines |
| Performance: | 24, 200 shp for 35 knots |
| Range: | 2,500 nautical miles at 20 knots |
| Guns: | four 4 inch; one 3 inch |
| Torpedoes: | twelve 21 inch |
USS Roper DD-147 earned four battle stars in WWII.
During WWII she sailed against Nazi, Italian and
Japanese Man-of-Wars.
| On the night of 13-14 April 1942 she made contact with a surfaced German U-boat off the coast of North Carolina. The ensuing chase ended with the sinking of U-86,7th Nazi U-boat Flotilla. In 1944 she landed French Army troops on Pianosa. Later that year she was part of the "Sitka" Force, landing troops off Ievant Island. In 1945 she became a member of the Pacific Fleet. While screening off the Hagushi anchorage 22 May 1945, she was hit by a kamikaze. Ordered back to theStates to complete repairs, she arrived after hostilities had ceased. Repairs were halted. |
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