Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Town class destroyers converted from Caldwell class destroyers, Town class destroyers converted from Clemson class destroyers, Town class destroyers converted from Wickes class destroyers, Town class destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy, Town class destroyers of the Royal Navy, Town class destroyers of the Royal Netherlands Navy, Town class destroyers of the Royal Norwegian Navy, Town class destroyers of the Soviet Navy, USS Wickes, HMS Campbeltown, USS Twiggs, USS Thomas, USS Yarnall, USS Welles, USS Robinson, USS Welborn C. Wood, USS Tillman, USS Williams, USS Thatcher, USS Hunt, USS Fairfax, USS Herndon, USS Crowninshield, USS Philip, USS McCook, USS Kalk, USS Maddox, USS Branch, USS Aaron Ward, USS Foote, USS McCalla, USS Abel P. Upshur, USS Edwards, USS Ringgold, USS Craven, USS Cowell, USS Evans, USS Aulick, USS Hale, USS Haraden, USS Satterlee, USS Claxton, USS Rodgers, USS Bancroft, USS Mason, USS Hopewell, USS Sigourney, USS Conner, USS Laub, USS Shubrick, USS MacKenzie, USS Stockton, USS Bailey, USS Bagley, USS Swasey, USS Abbot, USS McLanahan, USS Meade. Excerpt: The Town class destroyers were warships transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy in exchange for military bases in the Bahamas and elsewhere, as outlined in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between Britain and United States, signed on 2 September 1940. They were known as "four-pipers" or "four-stackers" because they had four smokestacks (funnels). Later classes of destroyers typically had one or two. Some went to the Royal Canadian Navy at the outset. Others went on to the Royal Norwegian Navy, the Royal Netherlands Navy, and the Soviet Navy after serving with the Royal Navy. Although given a set of names by the Commonwealth navies that suggested they were one class they actually came from three cla...