USS Stockton (DD-73)

USS Stockton
History
United States
Name	USS Stockton
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Yard number	437
Laid down	16 October 1916
Launched	17 July 1917
Commissioned	26 November 1917
Decommissioned	26 June 1922
Recommissioned	16 August 1940
Decommissioned	23 October 1940
Stricken	8 January 1941
Identification	DD-73
Fate	Transferred to Royal Navy 23 October 1940
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Ludlow
Acquired	23 October 1940
Decommissioned	June 1945
Fate	Beached 15 July 1945 Destroyed as target
General characteristics
Class and type	Caldwell-class destroyer
Displacement	1,020 tons (standard) 1,125 tons (normal)
Length	315 ft 6 in (96.16 m)
Beam	31 ft 4 in (9.55 m)
Draft	8 ft 1 in (2.46 m)
Propulsion	White-Forster boilers Parsons turbines three shafts 18,500 hp (13,800 kW)
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement	128 officers and enlisted
Armament	4 × 4 in (100 mm) 21-pdr guns 1 × 6 in (152 mm) Y-gun 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Stockton (DD-73), a Caldwell-class destroyer, in commission in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1922 — seeing service in World War I — and briefly during 1940. She later served in the Royal Navy as HMS Ludlow during World War II. She was the second U.S. Navy ship named for Commodore Robert F. Stockton (1795–1866).