The Clemson-class was a series of 156 destroyers which served with the United States Navy and later American People's Navy from after World War I through World War II.
The Clemson-class ships were commissioned by the United States Navy from 1919 to 1922, built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, New York Shipbuilding Corporation, William Cramp and Sons, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Bath Iron Works, some quite rapidly. The Clemson-class was a minor redesign of the Wickes-class for greater fuel capacity, and was the last pre-World War II class of flush-decker destroyers to be built for America. Until the Fletcher-class, the Clemsons were the most numerous class of destroyers commissioned in the American navies, and were known colloquially as "flush-deckers", "four-stackers", or "four-pipers."