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Benson class destroyer
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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.
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- Displacement: 1620 tons (1646 metric tons) light; 2200 tons (2235 metric tons) full load
- Length: 348'2" (105.2 m)
- Beam: 35'4" (10.8 m)
- Draft: 17'4" (5.3 m)
- Speed: 37 knots (68 km/h)
- Armament: 4 5"/38 guns, 5x4 21" (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- Engineering: 4 high-pressure super-heated boilers, 2 geared turbines with twin screws, 50,000 shaft horsepower (SHP)/37.3 MW
- Complement: 276
| Benson-class destroyer |
| Benson | Mayo | Madison | Lansdale | Hilary P. Jones | Charles F. Hughes | Laffey | Woodworth | Farenholt | Bailey | Bancroft | Barton | Boyle | Champlin | Meade | Murphy | Parker | Caldwell | Coghlan | Frazier | Gansevoort | Gillespie | Hobby | Kalk | Kendrick | Laub | MacKenzie | McLanahan | Nields | Ordronaux |
List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy |