Benson class
Benson- class | |
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USS Benson (DD-421) |
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Overview | |
Type | destroyer |
units | 30 built, 0 in service |
Shipyard |
Bethlehem Steel (various locations) |
Namesake | Admiral William S. Benson |
period of service |
US Navy: 1938–1947 |
Technical specifications | |
Information applies to the type ship, later construction lots showed deviations | |
displacement |
1620 ts (standard) |
length |
106.1 m |
width |
11 m |
Draft |
3.6 m (standard) |
crew |
208 (276 in wartime) |
drive |
4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, |
speed |
37.5 kn |
Range |
6000 nm (8820 km) at 15 knots |
Armament |
upon commissioning
after reconstruction
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The Benson-class destroyer was a destroyer class , which in World War II by the United States Navy was used.
The lead ship was the USS Benson (DD-421). The class consisted of 30 ships that were planned and constructed by Bethlehem Steel and put into service from 1938 to 1943. These ships were commissioned in two lots. The first batch of six ships was commissioned in fiscal 1938 and built at Bethlehem Steel in Quincy , Massachusetts and three state-owned US Navy shipyards ( Boston , Charleston and Puget Sound ). The remaining 24 ships were approved in 1941 and 1942 and built at Bethlehem Steel's shipyards in Quincy, San Francisco , San Pedro and Staten Island .
The ships of the Benson class were planned as an improvement on the Sims class , from which they mainly differed externally by the second funnel. They had a different arrangement of the drive, whereby a machine room and a boiler room with their own chimney were combined into one unit. This configuration was designed to prevent the ship from being immobilized by a single torpedo hit. These changes increased the displacement of the ships by around 60 tons.
During the World War four of the ships were destroyed, two by the Japanese and one by the Germans. The fourth loss was caused by a collision with a freighter. The remaining ships were decommissioned after the war or used as target ships.
The Benson class was supplemented by the Gleaves class . These destroyers were designed by Gibbs & Cox according to the same blueprints and only differed externally by the round funnels, which had flat sides in the Bensons.
Ships of the class
Identifier | Surname | Keel laying | Launch | Commissioning | Decommissioning | fate |
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DD-421 | Benson | May 16, 1938 | November 15, 1939 | July 25, 1940 | March 18, 1946 | Awarded to Taiwan on February 26, 1954, scrapped in 1974 |
DD-422 | Mayo | May 16, 1938 | March 26, 1940 | September 21, 1940 | March 18, 1946 | Sold for scrapping on May 8, 1972 |
DD-425 | Madison | September 19, 1938 | October 20, 1939 | August 6, 1940 | March 13, 1946 | Sunk October 14, 1969 as a target ship. |
DD-426 | Lansdale | December 19, 1938 | October 30, 1939 | 17th September 1940 | - | Sunk by German air raids on April 20, 1944 off the Algerian coast |
DD-427 | Hilary P. Jones | - | December 14, 1939 | September 6, 1940 | February 6, 1947 | Awarded to Taiwan on February 26, 1954, scrapped in 1974 |
DD-428 | Charles F. Hughes | - | May 16, 1940 | September 5, 1940 | March 18, 1946 | Sunk March 16, 1969 as a target ship. |
DD-459 | Laffey | January 13, 1941 | October 30, 1941 | March 31, 1942 | - | Sunk by Japanese battleship on November 13, 1942. |
DD-460 | Woodworth | April 30, 1941 | November 29, 1941 | April 30, 1942 | April 11, 1946 | Handed over to the Italian Navy on June 11, 1951, decommissioned and scrapped in January 1971. |
DD-491 | Farenholt | - | November 19, 1941 | April 2, 1942 | April 26, 1946 | Sold for scrapping in November 1972 |
DD-492 | Bailey | January 29, 1941 | December 19, 1941 | May 11, 1942 | May 2, 1946 | Sunk 4 November 1969 as a target ship. |
DD-598 | Bancroft | - | December 31, 1941 | April 30, 1942 | February 1, 1946 | Broken down in 1973 |
DD-599 | Barton | May 20, 1941 | January 31, 1942 | May 29, 1942 | - | Sunk by Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze on November 4, 1942 off Guadalcanal. |
DD-600 | Boyle | - | June 15, 1942 | August 15, 1942 | March 29, 1946 | Sunk as a target ship on May 3, 1973. |
DD-601 | Champlin | - | July 25, 1942 | September 12, 1942 | January 31, 1947 | Sold for scrapping on May 8, 1972 |
DD-602 | Meade | March 25, 1941 | February 15, 1942 | June 22, 1942 | June 17, 1946 | sunk as a target ship in February 1973. |
DD-603 | Murphy | May 19, 1941 | April 29, 1942 | July 25, 1942 | March 9, 1946 | October 21, 1943 Loss of bow section after collision with tanker Bulkoil, returned to service after repairs. Sold for scrapping on October 6, 1972 |
DD-604 | Parker | June 9, 1941 | May 12, 1942 | August 31, 1942 | January 31, 1947 | Sold for scrapping in 1973 |
DD-605 | Caldwell | - | January 15, 1942 | June 10, 1942 | April 24, 1946 | Sold for scrapping on November 4, 1966 |
DD-606 | Coghlan | - | February 12, 1942 | July 10, 1942 | March 31, 1947 | - |
DD-607 | Frazier | - | March 17, 1942 | July 30, 1942 | April 15, 1946 | Sold for scrapping on October 6, 1972 |
DD-608 | Gansevoort | June 16, 1941 | April 12, 1942 | August 25, 1942 | February 1, 1946 | Sunk March 23, 1972 as a target ship. |
DD-609 | Gillespie | - | November 1, 1942 | September 18, 1942 ?? | April 17, 1946 | Sunk in 1972 as a target ship. |
DD-610 | hobby | - | June 4, 1942 | November 18, 1942 | February 1, 1946 | Sunk as a target ship on June 1, 1972. |
DD-611 | lime | June 30, 1941 | July 18, 1942 | October 17, 1942 | May 3, 1946 | sunk as a target ship in March 1969. |
DD-612 | Kendrick | - | April 2, 1942 | September 12, 1942 | March 31, 1947 | destroyed in tests at sea |
DD-613 | leaves | May 1, 1941 | April 28, 1942 | October 24, 1942 | February 2, 1946 | Sold for scrapping on January 14, 1975 |
DD-614 | MacKenzie | May 29, 1941 | June 27, 1942 | November 21, 1942 | February 4, 1946 | Sunk on June 1, 1974 during fleet maneuvers |
DD-615 | McLanahan | May 29, 1941 | September 2, 1942 | December 19, 1942 | February 2, 1946 | Sold for scrapping in 1974 |
DD-616 | Nields | June 15, 1942 | October 1, 1942 | January 15, 1943 | March 26, 1946 | Sold for scrapping on May 8, 1972 |
DD-617 | Ordronaux | July 25, 1942 | November 9, 1942 | February 13, 1943 | January 1947 | Sold for scrapping in 1973 |
literature
- Norman Friedman, US Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History, Naval Institute Press, 1982, ISBN 978-0-87021-733-3
Web links
- Destroyer Benson class on Destroyer History Foundation (English)
- Richard Angelini: United States Benson-Livermore Class Destroyers ( en ) 2004. Archived from the original on May 7, 2008. Retrieved November 29, 2009.
- List of all US destroyers