Benham class destroyer
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| Displacement: | 1,500 tons (standard) 2,350 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 340 ft 9 in (103.8 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 6 in (10.8 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 3 in (4.0 m) |
| Fuel capacity: | 3,192 barrels (508 m³) |
| Propulsion: | 3 Boilers 2 Westinghouse Turbines: 50,000 hp (37 MW) |
| Top speed: | 40.7 knots (75 km/h) |
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| Complement: | 16 officers 235 enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 × 5 in (127 mm) 38 caliber guns, 2 × 40 mm twin anti-aircraft mounts, 2 × 21 in (533 mm) quadruple torpedo tubes |
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Ten Benham-class destroyers were commissioned into United States Navy during years 1938 and 1939. Much of their design is based upon the previously built versions of Gridley-class and Bagley-class destroyers. Two of the ships were lost during World War II, three of them would be scrapped in 1947, while the remaining five ships would be sunk after being contaminated from the atomic bomb tests in the Pacific.
[edit] Ships of the class
- USS Benham (DD-397), torpedoed by Japanese at Naval Battle of Guadalcanal November 15, 1942
- USS Ellet (DD-398)
- USS Lang (DD-399)
- USS Mayrant (DD-402)
- USS Trippe (DD-403)
- USS Rhind (DD-404)
- USS Rowan (DD-405), torpedoed by German E-boats while on convoy duty between Salerno and Oran September 11, 1943
- USS Stack (DD-406)
- USS Sterett (DD-407)
- USS Wilson (DD-408)
[edit] External links
- Benham-class destroyers at Destroyer History Foundation
- navsource.org: USS Benham
- destroyers.org: Benham Class
- destoyersonline.com: The Benham Class
| Benham-class destroyer |
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Benham | Ellet | Lang | Mayrant | Trippe | Rhind | Rowan | Stack | Sterett | Wilson |
List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy |
