Wickes

Wickes

 Wickes — American • Tech Tree • Tier II • Destroyer.

One of the massively produced destroyers in the U.S. Navy featuring flush-deck design. The key difference from her preceding class was the significantly increased propulsion power, resulting in higher speeds and better maneuverability.

 Navy: USN
 Ship: American
 Nation: United States
 Categoy: Tech Tree

 Tier: II
 Class: Destroyer
 Cost: 13 000
 XP: 1000

 Entered Service: 1918
 Ships in Series: 111
 Predecessor: Albany
 Successors: Clemson, Farragut

Ship Traits

Extended Smoke: Increased smoke screen duration.

Modest Guns: The ship is armed with low-caliber main battery guns.

Survivability Stats

SURVIVBILITY	STOCK	UPGRADED
• Hitpoints	8100	8900
• Armor (mm)	6 - 13	-
• Torpedo Damage Reduction (%)	0	0

Maneuverability

MANEUVERABILITY	STOCK	UPGRADED
• Maximum Speed (kn)	34	34
• Turning Circle Radius (m)	520	520
• Rudder Shift Time (sec)	4	2.4

Concealment

CONCEALMENT	STOCK	UPGRADED
• Detectability by Sea (km)	5.8	-
• Detectability by Air (km)	2.9	-
• Detectability while firing in smoke (km)	2	-

Torpedos

TORPEDOS	STOCK	UPGRADED
• Name	533mm triple	Torpedoes Bliss Leavitt Mk9
• Arrangement	4x3	4x3
• Reload Time (sec)	32	40
• 180° Turn Time (sec)	7.2	7.2
• Maximum Damage	6400	9900
• Detectability by Sea (km)	1	1.1
• Range (km)	4.5	5
• Speed (kn)	48	56

Main Artillery Stats

MAIN BATTERY	STOCK	UPGRADED
• Main Artillery Name	102mm Mk12	102mm Mk12
• Main Artillery Arrangement	4x1	4x1
• Firing Range (km)	8	8.7
• Reload Time (sec)	7	7
• 180° Turn Time (sec)	15.7	15.7
• HE Maximum Damage	1500	1500
• HE Fire Chance (%)	6	6
• HE Penetration (mm)	17	17
• AP Maximum Damage	1700	1700
• Sigma	2.0	-

Anti-Aircraft Artillery Stats

AA ARMAMENT 1	STOCK	UPGRADED
• Name	76.2mm/23 Mk7	12.7 mm Browning M2 mod.
• Arrangement	1x1	2x1
• DPS	1	8
• Range (km)	3	1.2

Modules, Modifications & Consumables

Modules

Destroyer - Wickes

	Hit Points	Min Armor (mm)	Max Armor (mm)	Torpedo Damage Reduction (%)	Main Battery Turrets	Torpedo Launchers	Rudder Shift (s)	Purchase Price
Stock	8100	6	13	0	4x1	4	4	0
Hull B	8900	6	13	0	4x1	4	2.4	2600

	Turret Arrangement	Reload Time (s)	180° Turn Time (s)	Max HE Damage	HE Fire Chance (%)	Max AP Damage
102mm Mk12	4x1	7	15.7	1500	6	1700
102mm Mk12	4x1	7	15.7	1500	6	1700

	Firing Range Increase (%)	Main Battery Firing Range	Purchase Price
Stock	0 %	8 km	0
Targeting System Mk2 mod. 2	10 %	8.7 km	320

	Launcher Arrangement	Reload Time (s)	180° Turn Time (s)	Max Damage	Range	Speed	Detection	Purchase Price
533mm triple	4x3	32s	7.2s	6400	4.5	48	1	0
Torpedoes Bliss Leavitt Mk9	4x3	40s	7.2s	9900	5	56	1.1	320

	Maximum Speed
Stock	34 kn

Modifications

Destroyer - Wickes

Consumables

Destroyer - Wickes

Damage Control Party

Accelerates repairs to damage modules, firefighting efforts and recovery from flooding.

Duration: 5s Reload time: 40s The number of consumables is unlimited

Smoke Generator

Generates a smoke screen behind the ship that reduces the risk of being detected by the enemy.

Duration: 23s Dispersion time: 109s Reload time: 240s Number of consumables: 2

Engine Boost

Temporarily increases the maximum ship speed.

Maximum speed: +8% Duration: 120s Reload time: 180s Number of consumables: 2

Community Contributions

Player Opinion

Destroyer - Wickes

Pros:

• Excellent maneuverability.
• Quick turret traverse speed.
• Able to drop waves of torpedoes from both sides.
• Low detection range.

Cons:

• Gun reload is a on the slow side.
• Guns are arranged such that only 3 can be brought to bear on a target at a time.
• Torpedoes are out-ranged by both Germanand Japanesecounterparts
• Anti-aircraft armament is almost non-existent.

Performance

History

Destroyer - Wickes

USS Wickes (DD-75) was an american destroyer and the lead ship of her class, laid down for the US Navy in 1917. One of the “four-stackers” destroyer class (alongside the Caldwell and Clemson class), they were designed to operate with a fast fleet composed of the planned Lexington class battlecruiser (represented in-game with a fictional modernisation by the premium Constellation) and the Omaha class light cruiser, as well as ASW operations. Their design was known as “flush deck”, to give the ships a better hull strength. However, it led to the bridge and main battery being very wet, and the tapered stern fitted to facilitate deep-charge deployment led to an increase of the turning radius, causing the ship to be less effective in ASW capability. They were also pretty short-ranged, limiting their scouting abilities.

Wickes was commissioned in mid-1917, shortly after the entry of the United States in World War I. Less than a month after her shakedown trials, she was deployed to escort convoys through the atlantic until her crew was hit by the Influenza, leading to the hospitalisation of a third of her mens. Soon after the outbreak of flu, the ship was rammed by an unidentified vessel during a convoy escort, destroying the keel and dealing major damages. There was no casualty, however, but the ramming ship disappeared in the night without any clue about her identification. When the Armistice was signed, she was still under repairs, but returned to service to escort President Wilson transport to France in the end of 1918.

After the end of the war, Wickes did a cruise to multiple northern Europe ports - where she collided with the German merchant vessel Ljusne Elf - before returning to France to escort President Wilson home. Assigned to the Pacific, where she got through a huge overhaul, William F. Halsey took command of her and got an excellent souvenir of the ship, writing in his memoirs that Wickes was "the best ship I ever commanded; she was also the smartest and the cleanest." After multiple exercises and training in the Pacific, Wickes was decommissioned and put into reserve in the first half of 1922.

Recomissionned in 1930 after eight years of inactivity, Wickes was assigned to the Atlantic to do multiple exercises and patrols in the central-America water before returning to the Pacific in 1932 until 1937, when she was shortly put into reserve. Recomissionned in 1939, one month after the start of World War Two in Europe, Wickes was brought back in war condition with her destroyer division (DesDiv 64) and transferred to the east coast for patrol duties. In early 1940, Wickes division was merged with two other destroyers divisions and two heavy cruisers to form the "Antilles Detachment" of the Atlantic Squadron. During one of her patrols, she destroyed her sistership USS Twiggs (DD-127) propellers, receiving in the process a small hole above the waterline.

When the British prime minister Winston Churchill requested the USA assistance in the summer of 1940, Wickes was chosen as one of the 50 “overaged” destroyers. Passing through a complete overhaul, she was transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Montgomery (G95), and stricken from the US Navy list the following year.

In World of Warships Legends, USS Wickes is represented in her late-1930 configuration, even if her first hull is fictional : she was never equipped with a lone 76mm anti-aircraft gun.

Source :

• Friedman, Norman, US Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History (Revised ed.). Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 1982 (2004)

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