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Photo #: S-511-51-A
"Scheme "B" - Destroyer Study"
Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board as part
of the process leading to the Allen M. Sumner (DD-692)
class design.
This 30 September 1941 plan, for a 2150-ton (standard displacement)
ship, provides a slightly updated Fletcher (DD-445) class
destroyer, retaining its five single 5"/38 gun mounts (although
two are semi-open mounts) and ten torpedo tubes. Among notable
changes are a modified bridge arrangement and two twin 40mm anti-aircraft
gun mounts (in place of the single quad 1.1" weapon of the
original Fletchers).
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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Image posted 15 March 2005
Image renumbered (from S-511-G) and reposted 4 October 2005