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Ships

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

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1657
Displacement full, t	2250
Length, m	101.8 wl 103.9 oa
Breadth, m	10.8
Draught, m	3.91 full load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 3 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	50000
Max speed, kts	38.5
Fuel, t	oil 194 - 484
Endurance, nm(kts)	6500 (12)
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

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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