USS Charles Ausburn

Last updated March 23, 2019

USS Charles Ausburn may refer to:

USS Charles Ausburn (DD-294), a Clemson-class destroyer, commissioned in 1920 and decommissioned in 1930.
USS Charles Ausburne (DD-570), a Fletcher-class destroyer, commissioned in 1942 and decommissioned in 1946. She was transferred to the German Navy in 1960, as Z-6 until scrapped in 1968.

USS Charles Ausburn (DD-294) was a Clemson-class destroyer built for the United States Navy during World War I.

<i>Clemson</i>-class destroyer ship class

The Clemson class was a series of 156 destroyers which served with the United States Navy from after World War I through World War II.

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller powerful short-range attackers. They were originally developed in the late 19th century by Fernando Villaamil for the Spanish Navy as a defense against torpedo boats, and by the time of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, these "torpedo boat destroyers" (TBDs) were "large, swift, and powerfully armed torpedo boats designed to destroy other torpedo boats". Although the term "destroyer" had been used interchangeably with "TBD" and "torpedo boat destroyer" by navies since 1892, the term "torpedo boat destroyer" had been generally shortened to simply "destroyer" by nearly all navies by the First World War.

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