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  Drayton 1936

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate	Modification
DD364	Mahan	819	Bethlehem, Staten I, Port Richmond	6/1934	15.10.1935	9/1936	sunk 7.12.1944	Mahan subclass
DD365	Cummings	820	Bethlehem, Staten I, Port Richmond	6/1934	11.12.1935	11/1936	stricken 1.1947	Mahan subclass
DD366	Drayton	159	Bath Iron Wks	3/1934	26.3.1936	9/1936	stricken 10.1945	Mahan subclass
DD367	Lamson	160	Bath Iron Wks	3/1934	17.6.1936	10/1936	sunk in nuclear tests 25.7.1946	Mahan subclass
DD368	Flusser	127	Federal, Kearny	6/1934	28.9.1935	10/1936	stricken 4.1947	Mahan subclass
DD369	Reid	128	Federal, Kearny	6/1934	11.1.1936	11/1936	sunk 11.12.1944	Mahan subclass
DD370	Case		Boston N Yd, Charlestown	9/1934	14.9.1935	9/1936	stricken 1.1947	Mahan subclass
DD371	Conyngham		Boston N Yd, Charlestown	9/1934	14.9.1935	11/1936	stricken 6.1948	Mahan subclass
DD372	Cassin		Philadelphia N Yd	10/1934	28.10.1935	8/1936	destroyed 7.12.1941	Mahan subclass
DD372	Cassin (ii)		Mare Island N Yd, Vallejo	6.1942	25.6.1943	2/1944	stricken 1.1947	Mahan subclass
DD373	Shaw		Philadelphia N Yd	10/1934	28.10.1935	9/1936	stricken 10.1945	Mahan subclass
DD374	Tucker		Norfolk N Yd, Portsmouth	8/1934	26.2.1936	7/1936	sunk 4.8.1942	Mahan subclass
DD375	Downes		Norfolk N Yd, Portsmouth	8/1934	22.4.1936	1/1937	destroyed 7.12.1941	Mahan subclass
DD375	Downes (ii)		Mare Island N Yd, Vallejo	6.1942	22.5.1943	11/1943	stricken 1.1947	Mahan subclass
DD376	Cushing		Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton	8/1934	31.12.1935	8/1936	sunk 13.11.1942	Mahan subclass
DD377	Perkins		Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton	8/1934	31.12.1935	9/1936	collision 29.11.1943	Mahan subclass
DD378	Smith		Mare Island N Yd, Vallejo	10/1934	20.2.1936	9/1936	stricken 2.1947	Mahan subclass
DD379	Preston		Mare Island N Yd, Vallejo	10/1934	22.4.1936	10/1936	sunk 14.11.1942	Mahan subclass
DD384	Dunlap	839	Bethlehem, Staten I, Port Richmond	4/1935	18.4.1936	6/1937	stricken 1.1947	Dunlap subclass
DD385	Fanning	840	Bethlehem, Staten I, Port Richmond	4/1935	18.9.1936	10/1937	stricken 1.1947	Dunlap subclass

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1488
Displacement full, t	2103
Length, m	101.8 wl 104.0 oa
Breadth, m	10.7
Draught, m	3.76 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	49000
Max speed, kts	36.5
Fuel, t	oil 201 - 522
Endurance, nm(kts)	6500 (12)
Armament	DD364 - 379, 384, 385: 5 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 3 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCR (14) DD372 (ii), 375 (ii): 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 2 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (44)
Electronic equipment	DD364 - 379, 384, 385: QCA sonar DD372 (ii), 375 (ii): presumably SC-3, SG-1, Mk 12.22 radars, QCA sonar
Complement	158

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Project history

Yet on design stage Farragut class destroyers were criticised by USN chief staff for insufficient, from their point of view, torpedo armament. At discussion on the General Board about requirements to new destroyers which will be built under the FY1933 programme, the judgement of supporters of strengthening of torpedo armament has prevailed, and it was offered to prepare the design with 12 TTs. Soon a sketch design with 4 triple TT banks, arranged aside, and 5 single 127/38 SP guns, was ready. Last circumstance has called the sharp criticism from the chief of Department of Naval operations (analogue of HQ chief) and this design has been turned down.

In March, 1933 the new compromise variant was ready. By insignificant increase in a hull breadth and re-planning of an armament arrangement (main gun No3 was transferred to aft superstructure, and two of three TTs have placed aside behind aft funnel) it was possible to achieve desirable result, however wider hull conducted to speed decrease that was considered as unacceptable. The way out has been found by Gibbs and Сох Co., developed the compact machinery with sufficient high-pressure boilers and first-ever (on destroyers) double-reduction geared turbines. Though new machinery was appeared almost on 30t more heavy, than on Farragut class, it was on some thousands hp more powerful and much more sufficient: with 50t less fuel stowage Mahan had the same endurance as Farragut.

Under the FY1933 programme 16 ships were built, two more (DD384 and 385) under the FY1934 program. Latters differed from other class having both fwd guns on ring based mounts for the first time in USN: that has allowed to made easier ammunition feeding and to fulfil a mount completely enclosed. Often these ships are outlined as separate Dunlap class.

During raid of Japanese aircraft to Pearl Harbour 7.12.1941 Downes and Cassin, laying in a drydock, were badly damaged by fire. At scuttling of dock they have received additional damages. Hulls of both destroyers became so deformed, that actually were not subjects to repair. Rather undamaged have appeared only machinery and part of armament. Formally both destroyers have been repaired (though hulls have built anew, they have the same numbers, therefore from the bureaucratic point of view remained the same ships). Both new-built ships differed from other destroyers of the class by low opened "Admiralty" bridge, two TTs at the centreline and a new fire control system.

Modernizations

early 1942, Mahan, Cummings, Drayton, Lamson, Flusser, Reid, Case, Tucker, Cushing, Perkins, Smith, Preston, Dunlap, Fanning: - 1 x 1 - 127/38, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90; + 7 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 DCT (44 DC at all)

early 1942, Conyngham: - 1 x 1 - 127/38, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 x 2 - 12.7/90, 4 DCT (44 DC at all)

late 1942, Shaw: - 1 x 1 - 127/38, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90; + 1 x 4 - 28/75 Mk 1, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 4 DCT (44 DC at all)

1942 - 1944, almost all survived (except Cassin (ii), Downes (ii)): + SC, SG, Mk 12.22 radars

1.1943 - mid-1944, Mahan, Cummings, Drayton, Lamson, Flusser, Reid, Case, Perkins, Smith, Dunlap, Fanning: - 2 x 1 - 20/70; + 2 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2

spring 1943, Conyngham: - 4 x 2 - 12.7/90, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90; + 2 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4

late 1943 - mid-1944, Shaw: - 1 x 4 - 28/75; + 2 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4

1944, Dunlap: - 1 x 4 - 533 TT

1.1945, Lamson: - 2 x 2 - 40/56, 2 x 4 - 533 TT; + 2 x 4 - 40/56 Mk 1.2

6.1945, Shaw: - 1 x 1 - 127/38, 5 x 1 - 20/70, 3 x 4 - 533 TT; + 2 x 4 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 4

8.1945, Lamson: - 1 x 4 - 533 TT

1.1946, DD365, 368, 370, 371, 378, 385: 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 21, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 3 x 4 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (44), SC, SG, Mk 12.22 radars, QCA sonar

1.1946, DD367: 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 21, 2 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 2, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (44), SC, SG, Mk 12.22 radars, QCA sonar

1.1946, DD372, 375: 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 21, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 6 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (44), SC, SG, Mk 12.22 radars, QCA sonar

DD384: 4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 21, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 5 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (44), SC, SG, Mk 12.22 radars, QCA sonar