Rowan 1942
Lang 1945
| No | Name | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| DD397 | Benham | 138 | Federal, Kearny | 6/1936 | 16.4.1938 | 2/1939 | sunk 15.11.1942 |
| DD398 | Ellet | 139 | Federal, Kearny | 12/1936 | 11.6.1938 | 2/1939 | stricken 11.1945 |
| DD399 | Lang | 140 | Federal, Kearny | 4/1937 | 27.8.1938 | 3/1939 | stricken 11.1945 |
| DD402 | Mayrant | Boston N Yd, Charlestown | 4/1937 | 14.5.1938 | 9/1939 | target in nuclear tests 7.1946, scuttled 4.4.1948 | |
| DD403 | Trippe | Boston N Yd, Charlestown | 4/1937 | 14.5.1938 | 11/1939 | target in nuclear tests 7.1946, sunk as target 3.2.1948 | |
| DD404 | Rhind | Philadelphia N Yd | 9/1937 | 28.7.1938 | 11/1939 | target in nuclear tests 7.1946, scuttled 22.3.1948 | |
| DD405 | Rowan | Norfolk N Yd, Portsmouth | 6/1937 | 5.5.1938 | 9/1939 | sunk 10.9.1943 | |
| DD406 | Stack | Norfolk N Yd, Portsmouth | 6/1937 | 5.5.1938 | 11/1939 | target in nuclear tests 7.1946, sunk as target 24.4.1948 | |
| DD407 | Sterett | Charleston N Yd | 12/1936 | 27.10.1938 | 8/1939 | stricken 2.1947 | |
| DD408 | Wilson | Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton | 3/1937 | 12.4.1939 | 7/1939 | target in nuclear tests 7.1946, scuttled 8.3.1948 |
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Displacement standard, t |
1657 |
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Displacement full, t |
2250 |
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Length, m |
101.8 wl 103.9 oa |
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Breadth, m |
10.8 |
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Draught, m |
3.91 full load |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 sets Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 3 Babcock & Wilcox boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
50000 |
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Max speed, kts |
38.5 |
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Fuel, t |
oil 194 - 484 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 6500 (12) |
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Armament |
4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 4 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (10) |
| Electronic equipment |
QCE sonar |
| Complement | 184 |
Project history: Benham class destroyers were built under the FY1935 program and as a whole repeated Bagley class, but with improved machinery with changed structure, with three bigger boilers. Machinery power has been raised to 50000hp for achievement of 38.5kts speed, as on Gridley class. Thanks to presence of only three smoke pipes trunked to a funnel, its size was less, in comparison with previous class. Placing of all main guns on ring based mounts was the unique armament difference in comparison with predecessors, however completely enclosed the fwd mounts were only. Though nominally Benham class concerned to a series of so-called 1500t destroyers (Mahan, Bagley and Gridley classes), their actual standard displacement was significant more than official 1500t.
Modernizations: 1941, Lang, Mayrant, Trippe, Rhind, Rowan, Stack, Sterett, Wilson: - 2 x 4 - 533 TT; + 3 x 1 - 12.7/90, 4 DCT (46 DC at all)
early 1942, Benham, Ellet: - 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 4 - 533 TT; + 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 DCT (44 DC at all)
early 1942, Lang, Mayrant, Trippe, Rhind, Rowan, Stack, Sterett, Wilson: - 7 x 1 - 12.7/90; + 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4
1942 - 1944, almost all survived: + SC, SG, Mk 12.22 radars
8.1942 - early 1943, all survived: - 2 x 1 - 20/70; + 2 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2
summer 1945, Lang, Sterett, Wilson: - 4 x 1 - 20/70, 2 x 4 - 533 TT; + 2 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 4 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 4
1.1946, DD402-404, 406: 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (46), SC, SG, Mk 12.22 radars, QCE sonar
DD407, 408: 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 4 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 4 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 24, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (46), SC, SG, Mk 12.22 radars, QCE sonar
Naval service: Benham 14.11.1942 in battle at Guadalcanal was torpedoed by Japanese destroyer and sunk next day. Rowan 11.9.1943 was sunk off Salerno by German MTBs of 7th flotilla.
Mayrant 26.7.1943 was badly damaged by German aircraft. Sterett 13.11.1942 was badly damaged by Japanese ships in battle at Guadalcanal and was under repair till February, 1943; 9.4.1945 she was again badly damaged by kamikaze off Okinawa. Wilson 15.4.1945 was damaged off Okinawa by kamikaze.
Trippe, Rhind, Stack, Wilson and Mayrant participated in nuclear tests in July, 1946 off Bikini. They are sunk as targets in 1948 at new weapons tests.
Stack 1944
© Ivan Gogin, 2014