USS Wickes (DD-75)

Wickes in the early 1920s
History
United States
Name	USS Wickes
Namesake	Lambert Wickes
Builder	Bath Iron Works
Laid down	26 June 1917
Launched	25 June 1918
Commissioned	31 July 1918
Decommissioned	15 May 1922
Recommissioned	26 April 1930
Decommissioned	6 April 1937
Recommissioned	30 September 1939
Stricken	8 January 1941
Fate	Transferred to Royal Navy 23 October 1940
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Montgomery
Commissioned	23 October 1940
Fate	Scrapped, 1945
General characteristics
Class and type	Wickes-class destroyer
Displacement	1,247 tons
Length	314 ft 4+1⁄2 in (95.822 m)
Beam	30 ft 11+1⁄4 in (9.430 m)
Draft	9 ft (2.7 m)
Complement	100 officers and enlisted
Armament	4 × 4-inch/50-caliber guns 2 × 1-pounder guns 12 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

The first USS Wickes (DD-75) was the lead ship of her class of destroyers in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Montgomery. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Montgomery.