Photo #: S-511-62
"300' DE Class Conversion to Bombardment Ship or Anti-Aircraft
Ship"
Preliminary design plan prepared during consideration of different
roles for steam-powered escort ships (DE), of which more ships
were being constructed than necessary to meet current anti-submarine
escort requirements.
This plan, dated 7 September 1943 with an additional note of
25 October 1943, depicts two different configurations: A "Bombardment
Ship" with five 5"/25 low-angle guns ("submarine
type") and a pair of 40mm twin anti-aircraft gun mounts;
and an "Anti-Aircraft Ship" with three 5"/38 guns
and three 40mm twin anti-aircraft gun mounts. Though an improved
version of the latter was approved for both roles, no ships were
completed or converted for these purposes.
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.
Online Image: 532KB; 3000 x 1575
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