Photo #: S-511-39
"Scheme "A" - 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, while retaining two banks of five 21-inch torpedo tubes.
Standard displacement of the ship is 1810 tons, an increase of
some 190 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.
Online Image: 476KB; 3000 x 1610
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