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Jten · 01-23-10, 08:31 PM

Beautiful, good work.

My father-in-law was on a Gleaves class DD.

The only easy way of differentiating the two new classes from one another was that the Bensons had flat-sided stacks while the Gleaves’ were round.
The two classes were similar designs prepared by two sources, Bethlehem (Benson) and Gibbs & Cox, (Gleaves) with small numbers of ships authorized in each fiscal year.
As the war threat increased, the Navy ordered repeat builds of the two classes.
All these repeat ships were ordered with only four 5" mounts due to severe topweight problems with the initial ships with the #3 5" mount being replaced with an AA mount. Ships in service had their #3 mount removed during refits.

With a little change you could add a Gleaves class with 4 5" mounts.

01-23-10, 08:31 PM	#6
Jten Mate Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Tennessee Posts: 55 Downloads: 102 Uploads: 0	Gleaves class Beautiful, good work. My father-in-law was on a Gleaves class DD. The only easy way of differentiating the two new classes from one another was that the Bensons had flat-sided stacks while the Gleaves’ were round. The two classes were similar designs prepared by two sources, Bethlehem (Benson) and Gibbs & Cox, (Gleaves) with small numbers of ships authorized in each fiscal year. As the war threat increased, the Navy ordered repeat builds of the two classes. All these repeat ships were ordered with only four 5" mounts due to severe topweight problems with the initial ships with the #3 5" mount being replaced with an AA mount. Ships in service had their #3 mount removed during refits. With a little change you could add a Gleaves class with 4 5" mounts.