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UNITED STATES NAVY DEPARTMENT
BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR / BUREAU OF SHIPS
"SPRING STYLES," 1939-1944
BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR / BUREAU OF SHIPS
"SPRING STYLES," 1939-1944
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Bureau of Ships' "Spring Styles" Book # 3 (1939-1944)
-- (Naval Historical Center Lot # S-511) --
Destroyer Preliminary Design Drawings
Nine of 1939-1944 "Spring Styles" Book's 75 preliminary design drawings concern destroyers. They represent only two design studies, one (from July 1941) a relatively modest (2 drawings) examination of updated versions of the Benson (DD-421) and Gleaves (DD-423) classes. The other, with seven drawings (six dated 30 September 1941 and one dated 10 March 1942), result from the effort that ultimately produced the Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) class, and features quite a variety of proposed armament configurations.
This page features those 1939-1944 Bureau of Ships "Spring Styles" plans that concern destroyers.
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The Destroyer drawings included in this album are:
-- Two proposed designs for updated versions of the Benson (DD-421) and Gleaves (DD-423) classes, most significantly featuring enhanced anti-aircraft machine gun batteries and a different style of pilothouse:
- S-511-39:
"Scheme "A" - Destroyer Study". Plan dated
July 1941. This 1810-ton design provides a pair of 40mm twin gun
mounts and ten torpedo tubes.
- S-511-40: "Scheme "A-I" - Destroyer Study". Plan dated July 1941. This 1795-ton design provides a pair of 40mm twin gun mounts, two 20mm single guns, five torpedo tubes and a generally less crowded arrangement.
-- Seven drawings representing studies made during the development
of the Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) class:
- S-511-51-A: "Scheme
"B"". Plan dated 30 September 1941 for a 2150-ton
destroyer, not greatly different from the original Fletcher
class design, but with a pair of 40mm twin A.A. gun mounts.
- S-511-51-F: "Scheme
"B-I"". Plan dated 30 September 1941 for a
2135-ton destroyer, not greatly different from the original Fletcher
class design, but with a pair of 40mm twin A.A. gun mounts and
only five torpedo tubes.
- S-511-51-E: "Scheme
"B-II"". Plan dated 30 September 1941 for a
2200-ton destroyer with three twin 5"/38 gun mounts (two
forward, one aft), five torpedo tubes and a pair of twin 40mm
A.A. gun mounts. This scheme, evolved into that seen in S-511-51
(listed below), became the basis for the eventual DD-692 class
design.
- S-511-51-D: "Scheme
"B-III"". Plan dated 30 September 1941 for
a 2180-ton destroyer with two twin 5"/38 gun mounts (one
forward, one atop the after deckhouse), two banks of three torpedo
tubes each, and four twin 40mm A.A. gun mounts (two forward, one
amidships on the port side, one aft).
- S-511-51-C: "Scheme
"B-IV"". Plan dated 30 September 1941 for a
2185-ton destroyer with two twin 5"/38 gun mounts (both forward),
two banks of three torpedo tubes each, and four twin 40mm A.A.
gun mounts (one on each corner of the after deckhouse).
- S-511-51-B: "Scheme
"B-V"". Plan dated 30 September 1941 for a
2215-ton destroyer with two twin 5"/38 gun mounts forward
and a single 5"/38 gun mount aft, two banks of three torpedo
tubes each, and four twin 40mm A.A. gun mounts (one on each corner
of the after deckhouse).
- S-511-51: "Scheme
"B-VII"" (a revision of Scheme "B-II").
Plan dated 10 March 1942 for a 2270-ton destroyer with three twin
5"/38 gun mounts (two forward, one aft), ten torpedo tubes
and a pair of twin 40mm A.A. gun mounts. Its bridge arrangement
has been changed from that seen in the September 1941 drawings.
This scheme, derived from that seen in S-511-51-E (listed above),
was the immediate basis for the eventual DD-692 class design.
- Note: Drawing S-511-51-G was renumbered S-511-51-A after it was discovered that the original drawing number had been interpreted incorrectly.
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