page_title: Tucker-class destroyer
section_title: USS Tucker (DD-57)
hierarchical_section_title: Tucker-class destroyer / Ships in class / USS Tucker (DD-57)
caption_attribution_description: English: Tucker in United States Coast Guard service, c. 1926–1933. Polski: USS "Tucker" (DD-57) pod banderą United States Coast Guard, ok. 1926–1933.
context_page_description: The Tucker class of destroyers was a ship class of six ships designed by and built for the United States Navy shortly before the United States entered World War I. The Tucker class was the fourth of five classes of destroyers that were known as the "thousand tonners", because they were the first U.S. destroyers over 1,000 long tons displacement.
  The design of what became the Tucker class was the result of compromises between the General Board of the United States Navy and the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair. The General Board, tasked with creating an integrated battle fleet, wanted a larger ship that could serve in a scouting role and proposed a ship larger than the unique British destroyer HMS Swift of 1907, and more than twice the displacement of any previous U.S. destroyer. Input from Construction and Repair resulted in a design that was an incremental development of the O'Brien class, which itself was similar to the first of the thousand tonners, the Cassin class.
context_section_description: USS Tucker (DD-57), the lead ship of the class, was laid down by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, Massachusetts, in November 1914 and launched in May 1915. She was the first U.S. Navy vessel named for Samuel Tucker.
  After her April 1916 commissioning, Tucker sailed off the east coast and in the Caribbean. After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, Tucker was part of the second U.S. destroyer squadron sent overseas. Patrolling the Irish Sea out of Queenstown, Ireland, Tucker made several rescues of passengers and crew from ships sunk by U-boats.  For her part in rescuing crewmen from the Dupetit-Thouars in August 1918, Tucker received a commendation from the Préfet Maritime. ».  « Tucker  » hunted and sank the U-boat  involved the day after the attack, cheered on by the sailors it had rescued, who were still on board.  The commanding officer, Douglas W. Fuller, was  made a chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur. « 'Tucker was transferred to Brest, France, and spent the remainder of the war there.
  Upon returning to the United State near the end of 1918, Tucker underwent repairs at the Boston Navy Yard. After a New England recruiting tour through October 1919, she was placed in reduced commission and then decommissioned in May 1921. In March 1926, Tucker was transferred to the United States Coast Guard to help enforce Prohibition as a part of the "Rum Patrol". She operated under the name USCGC Tucker (CG-23) until 1933; during her Coast Guard service, she was the first American ship to arrive at the crash site of Navy airship Akron. After her transfer back to the Navy later in 1933, the ship was renamed DD-57 to free the name Tucker for another destroyer. She was sold for scrap and hulked in December 1936.
caption: Tucker in United States Coast Guard service, c. 1926–1933
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