However, if you would like your model made in a size other than those sizes listed, please contact us with your request. BuShips - September 4, 1951, 1954 BuShips Proposed Air The last World War II surface combatant in US naval service was the USS William C. Lawe (DD-763), a Gearing FRAM I, decommissioned and stricken 1 October 1983 and expended as a target 14 July 1999. All Rights Reserved The normal procedure is a 50% deposit with the commissioning, with the balance due prior to shipping. These ships, along with Fletcher-class destroyers and Allen M. Sumner-class destroyers also acquired then, were upgraded under the WuChin (Chinese: ) I, II, and III programs and known throughout the ROCN as the Yang-class (Chinese: ) destroyers as they were assigned names that all end with the word "Yang". Four unnamed vessels (DD-809 to DD-812) awarded to Bath Iron Works, and five others (DD-813, DD-814, and DD-854 to DD-856) awarded to Bethlehem at Staten Island, were cancelled on 12 August 1945. As of April 2012 two were laid up in non-operational condition in Kaohsiung, Taiwan: ROCS Chien Yang (ex-James E. Kyes) and ROCS Sheng Yang, (ex-Power). Had a twin, dual-purpose 5-inch/38 caliber gun mount been available in 1941, the US Navy's next destroyer design after the Benson and Gleaves classes might well have incorporated it instead of five single mounts, attempted unsuccessfully in those classes though successful in the larger Fletcher class that followed. Following the close of World War II, 6 further vessels were cancelled in 1946, while another 4 (DD-927 to DD-930) were completed as destroyer leaders DL-2 to DL-5: The first ship was laid down in August 1944, while the last was launched in March 1946. This 30 September 1941 plan, for a 2180-ton (standard displacement) ship, In combat, commanders often requisitioned additional guns with some ships mounting up to thirteen 20mm cannons. 2 5-inch mount or the trainable Hedgehog mount. Two (Bath Iron Works Frank Knox and Southerland, numbered in sequence and launched without pause in the production schedule after Drexler, the yards last Sumner) commissioned in 1944. Fourteen were built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. FRAM I and FRAM II conversions were completed 1960-65. [5] They could cover the vast distances required by fleet actions in the Pacific and served almost exclusively in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II, during which they accounted for 29 Imperial Japanese Navy submarines sunk. They continued serving, with a series of upgrades, until the 1970s. This 30 September 1941 plan, for a 2135-ton (standard displacement) ship, Many of the Gearings provided significant gunfire support in the Vietnam War. (later cancelled), DD-813 to DD-814 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island. On 21 June, 1942, O'Bannon was inclined at Bath. planning that went into the construction of a destroyer. Shipyard Overhaul Plans, Plans Termed "Spring Styles" by the Preliminary Forty-five commissioned before the end of the war, 62 by the end of 1945 and 91 through 1946, followed by two more (Lloyd Thomas and Keppler) in 1947, four more (Epperson, Basilone, Carpenter and Robert A. Owens, with anti-submarine warfare modifications) in 1949, and a final one, (Timmerman, with an experimental engineering plant) in 1952. Booklet of General Plans At that time many were sold to other nations, where they served many more years. Twelve 40mm (1.57in) Bofors guns in two quad and two twin mounts and 11 20mm (0.79in) Oerlikon cannons in single mounts were also equipped. // -->
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