The destroyer transfer of 50 "Flush Deck (Four Piper)" Clemson
Class Destroyers occurred in 1940.
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The USS Reuben James, an obsolete WWI flush deck destroyer (aka
four piper) of the Clemson/Wickes class. The same class of vessels
given to Britain under the Lend Lease Act.
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Probably the old WWI Clemson/Wickes class flush deck destroyer
USS Reuben James.