Benson class destroyer
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 USS Benson (DD-421) |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Benson class destroyer |
| Operators: |  United States Republic of China (Taiwan) |
| Preceded by: | Sims class destroyer |
| Succeeded by: | Gleaves class destroyer |
| Completed: | 30 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1620 tons (2515 tons full load) |
| Length: | 341 ft (104 m) waterline, 348 ft 2 in (106.1 m) overall |
| Beam: | 36 ft 1 in (11.0 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft 9 in (3.6 m) (normal), 17 ft 9 in (5.4 m) (full load) |
| Propulsion: | four Babcock & Wilcox boilers, General Electric SR geared turbines; two shafts; 50000 shp (37 MW) |
| Speed: | 37.5 knots (69 km/h) 33 knots (61 km/h) full load |
| Range: | 6,000 nautical miles at 15 kt (11,000 km at 28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 208 (276 war) |
| Armament: | 5 × 5 in (127 mm) DP guns, 6 × 0.50 in. (12.7 mm) guns, 10 × 21 in (53 cm) torpedo tubes, 2 × depth charge tracks |
The Benson class was a class of 30 destroyers of the U.S. Navy built 1939–1943. The first ship of the class was the USS Benson (DD-421). The U.S. Navy customarily names a class of ships after the first ship of the class; hence the Benson class.
The Benson class was designed as an improved version of the Sims-class with two stacks and a new machinery arrangement that featured alternating boiler and engine rooms designed to give the ships a better chance at surviving torpedo damage. Their scantlings, or framing dimensions, were increased to carry the weight of the new machinery. This increased the ship's displacement by about sixty tons. The Benson-class destroyer was the backbone of the pre-war Neutrality Patrols and brought the action to the enemy by participating in every major campaign of the war.
The Gleaves-class destroyers were built to nearly the same design and were virtually identical to the Benson-class. The only visible difference between Benson and Gleaves was the shape of the stacks (the Bensons were flat-sided).
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[edit] Ships of the class
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[edit] External links
- Benson-class destroyers at Destroyer History Foundation
- Tin Can Sailors @ Destroyers.org - Benson class destroyer
[edit] See also
- Livermore class destroyer
- List of destroyers of the United States Navy
- List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy
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