Photo #: S-511-40
"Scheme "A-I" - Destroyer Study"
Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board during
consideration of updated versions of the Benson (DD-421)
and Gleaves (DD-423) classes for further production during
World War II.
This plan, dated July 1941, provides a pair of twin 40mm anti-aircraft
guns in an arrangement intended to reduce crowding, with somewhat
increased space between the after 5"/38 gun mounts. Searchlights
are also located separately, one on each smokestack. Only one
bank of five 21-inch torpedo tubes is fitted, but a pair of single
20mm guns is installed to provide close-in anti-aircraft fire
forward. Standard displacement of the ship is 1795 tons, an increase
of some 175 tons over the original DD-421 class.
Scale of the original drawings is 1/16" = 1'.
The original plan is in the 1939-1944 "Spring Styles Book"
held by the Naval Historical Center.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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