{{Short description|US Navy destroyers}} {{Ref improve|date=October 2018 }} thumb|200px|right|{{USS|Buchanan|DD-131}}, 1936 The term '''four piper''', also known as a<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mun.ca/mha/polluxtruxtun/truxtun/|title=USS Truxtun: Crew – Dead Reckoning: The Pollux-Truxtun Disaster}}</ref> '''four stacker''', is United States Navy terminology for classes of destroyers with four funnels. These include the classes listed below:
* {{sclass|Cassin|destroyer|1}} * {{sclass|Bainbridge|destroyer|1}} * {{sclass|Paulding|destroyer|1}} * {{sclass|Wickes|destroyer|1}} * {{sclass|Clemson|destroyer|1}}
These classes were built for use by the United States Navy during World War I and subsequently "moth-balled". Fifty were loaned, under the Destroyers-for-bases deal, to the United Kingdom when convoy escorts were desperately needed in the early years of World War II.
==References== {{Reflist}}
== See also ==
* Four-funnel liner * List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060515032719/http://home.gci.net/~fourpiperdestroyer/html/ships.htm Four Piper Destroyer Organization, 2005, "General Specifications"]
Category:Ship types
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