USS Walker DD-163
Title
USS Walker DD-163
Subject
Destroyer
Description
Description based off of the USS Walker in the Destroyermen series, not its real life counterpart.
The USS Walker is a World War 1 Wickes class destroyer aka as a “four stacker” because of its four smokestacks that release steam from its four boiler rooms. Wickes class destroyer’s common armament consisted of 4 x 4 inch/50 caliber guns, 1 x 3 inch/23 caliber AA gun, and 12 x 21 inch torpedo tubes. The recorded top speed for Wickes class destroyers was at 35.3 knots (64 KM/h). The crew complement was around 100 officers and enlisted. The Wickes class was built during 1917-1919 and a 111 ships were built which saw action in World War 1 and held several roles through World War 2.
The USS Walker saw action in the beginning months of America’s involvement in World War 2 after Pearl Harbor. During a retreat from Japanese forces the USS Walker and Mahan were the last remaining allied ships after HMS Exeter, USS Pope, and HMS Encounter were destroyed at the hands of a Japanese battle group lead by the IJN Amagi. When using a squall to cover their last ditch attack on the Amagi, Mahan and Walker were somehow transported to an alternate Earth which evolved different forms of intelligent life in the form of the lizard like Grik and the cat/monkey like Lemurians. The USS Walker has since been used to great effect against the ancient enemy the Grik, whose goals are to destroy Walker’s new found ally the Lemurians.
The USS Walker is a World War 1 Wickes class destroyer aka as a “four stacker” because of its four smokestacks that release steam from its four boiler rooms. Wickes class destroyer’s common armament consisted of 4 x 4 inch/50 caliber guns, 1 x 3 inch/23 caliber AA gun, and 12 x 21 inch torpedo tubes. The recorded top speed for Wickes class destroyers was at 35.3 knots (64 KM/h). The crew complement was around 100 officers and enlisted. The Wickes class was built during 1917-1919 and a 111 ships were built which saw action in World War 1 and held several roles through World War 2.
The USS Walker saw action in the beginning months of America’s involvement in World War 2 after Pearl Harbor. During a retreat from Japanese forces the USS Walker and Mahan were the last remaining allied ships after HMS Exeter, USS Pope, and HMS Encounter were destroyed at the hands of a Japanese battle group lead by the IJN Amagi. When using a squall to cover their last ditch attack on the Amagi, Mahan and Walker were somehow transported to an alternate Earth which evolved different forms of intelligent life in the form of the lizard like Grik and the cat/monkey like Lemurians. The USS Walker has since been used to great effect against the ancient enemy the Grik, whose goals are to destroy Walker’s new found ally the Lemurians.
Creator
Fore River Shipyard, Quincy Massachusetts.
United States Navy
United States Navy
Source
Destroyermen series by Taylor Anderson
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/163.htm
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/0516304.jpg
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/163.htm
http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/0516304.jpg
Publisher
ROC Science Fiction
Date
19 September 2014
Contributor
Jared Lampe
Files
Citation
Fore River Shipyard, Quincy Massachusetts.
United States Navy, “USS Walker DD-163,” The Museum of Fictional Literary Artifacts, accessed April 23, 2024, https://mfla.omeka.net/items/show/58.