The term four piper, or four stacker, is United States Navy terminology for classes of destroyers with four funnels. These include the classes listed below:
These classes were built for use by the United States Navy during World War I and subsequently "moth-balled". Fifty were loaned, under the Destroyers-for-bases deal, to the United Kingdom when convoy escorts were desperately needed in the early years of World War II.
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See also
Four-funnel liner List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy
External links Four Piper Destroyer Organization, 2005, "General Specifications"