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Barry 1971

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
DD931	Forrest Sherman	324	Bath Iron Wks	27.10.1953	5.2.1955	9.11.1955	stricken 7.1990
DD932, 3.1967- DDG32	John Paul Jones	325	Bath Iron Wks	18.1.1954	7.5.1955	5.4.1956	stricken 3.1986
DD933	Barry	326	Bath Iron Wks	15.3.1954	1.10.1955	31.8.1956	stricken 1.1983
DD936, 9.1966- DDG31	Decatur	1648	Bethlehem, Quincy	13.9.1954	15.12.1955	7.12.1956	stricken 3.1988
DD937	Davis	1649	Bethlehem, Quincy	1.2.1955	28.3.1956	28.2.1957	stricken 7.1990
DD938	Jonas Ingram	1650	Bethlehem, Quincy	15.6.1955	8.7.1956	19.7.1957	stricken 6.1983
DD940	Manley	327	Bath Iron Wks	10.2.1955	12.4.1956	1.2.1957	stricken 6.1990
DD941	Du Pont	328	Bath Iron Wks	11.5.1955	8.9.1956	1.7.1957	stricken 6.1990
DD942	Bigelow	329	Bath Iron Wks	6.7.1955	2.2.1957	8.11.1957	stricken 6.1990
DD943	Blandy	1651	Bethlehem, Quincy	29.12.1955	19.12.1956	26.11.1957	stricken 7.1990
DD944	Mullinix	1652	Bethlehem, Quincy	5.4.1956	18.3.1957	7.3.1958	stricken 7.1990
DD945	Hull	330	Bath Iron Wks	12.9.1956	10.8.1957	3.7.1958	stricken 11.1983
DD946	Edson	331	Bath Iron Wks	3.12.1956	4.1.1958	3.4.1959	stricken 1.1989
DD947, 3.1967- DDG34	Somers	332	Bath Iron Wks	4.3.1957	30.5.1958	9.4.1959	stricken 4.1988
DD948	Morton	1019	Ingalls, Pascagoula	4.3.1957	23.5.1958	26.5.1959	stricken 2.1990
DD949, 3.1967- DDG33	Parsons	1020	Ingalls, Pascagoula	17.6.1957	19.8.1958	29.10.1959	stricken 5.1984
DD950	Richard S. Edwards		Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton	20.12.1956	24.9.1957	5.2.1959	stricken 2.1990
DD951	Turner Joy		Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton	30.9.1957	5.5.1958	3.8.1959	stricken 2.1990

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2800
Displacement full, t	4916
Length, m	124.1 wl 127.6 oa
Breadth, m	13.7
Draught, m	4.60
No of shafts	2
Machinery	DD931, 932: 2 sets Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers DD933, 938, 943 - 951: 2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers DD936, 937: 2 sets Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 4 Foster Wheeler boilers DD940 - 942: 2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 4 Foster Wheeler boilers
Power, h. p.	70000
Max speed, kts	33
Fuel, t	oil 500
Endurance, nm(kts)	4500 (20)
Armament	DD931, 932: 3 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 4 - 533 TT, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Mk 15 Hedgehog ASWRL, 1 DCR DD933, 936-938, 940-951: 3 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Mk 15 Hedgehog ASWRL, 1 DCR
Electronic equipment	SPS-6, SPS-10, SPG-53A, Mk 35 radars, SQS-4 sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites
Complement	324

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Project history

These were the only postwar general-purpose gun-armed destroyers, intended originally as a mobilization version of the expensive Mitscher class (1950). However, when a Gibbs and Cox study showed that a simplification of the sophisticated construction of the earlier design would result in a 5000t ship, a new design was begun, concentrating more on anti-aircraft firepower than on ASW. In the end, even a trainable Hedgehog was given up, as it would have required extra length. It appears that the unusual gun arrangement, two aft and one forward, was adopted for dryness; in addition it was well suited for antiaircraft defence. Given the high rate of fire of the automatic Mk 42 gun mounting in these ships, their battery was more than equivalent to that of the earlier Gearing class, although this was not evident at the time.

From DD 936 onwards the sheer line was raised 0.9m at the bow for additional dryness; the first ships (FY53 group) were too far along to be modified. ASW weapons were fixed Hedgehogs and four long torpedo tubes, as well as a dropping system (succeeded by the familiar Mk 32 triple tubes) for lightweight torpedoes. However, the Bureau of Ordnance abandoned long torpedoes for surface ships in about 1956, and only the first two units were completed as planned.

By 1954 the state of destroyer and escort development was sufficiently confused to require special analysts, and a Committee of the Long Range Shipbuilding and Conversion Plan proposed the abandonment of general-purpose destroyer construction in favour of a combination of fast task force escorts (which became the Farragut), fast ASW escorts (a proposed 'corvette' conversion of the Bensons and austere ocean escorts (destroyer escorts such as the Dealeys). In fact Forrest Sherman class construction was soon terminated in favour of a missile-armed equivalent, the Charles F. Adams class, with eighteen general-purpose escorts completed.

Modernizations

1966, Decatur; 1967, John Paul Jones: were converted to guide missile destroyers with armament consisted of 1 x 1 Tartar SAM (40 RIM-24), 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (16 RUR-5), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, SPS-29, SPS-40, SPS-48, SPS-10, SPG-51C, SPG-53B radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites

1967, Parsons: was converted to guide missile destroyer with armament consisted of 1 x 1 Tartar SAM (40 RIM-24), 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (16 RUR-5), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, SPS-29, SPS-48, SPS-10, SPG-51C, SPG-53B radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites

1967, Somers: was converted to guide missile destroyer with armament consisted of 1 x 1 Tartar SAM (40 RIM-24), 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (16 RUR-5), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, SPS-40, SPS-48, SPS-10, SPG-51C, SPG-53B radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites

1967-1971, Barry, Davis, Manley: were converted to ASW destroyers with armament consisted of 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (20 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Mk 15 Hedgehog ASWRL, 1 DCR, SPS-37, SPS-10, SPG-53A radars, SQS-23, SQS-35 sonars, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites

1967-1971, Jonas Ingram, Du Pont, Blandy, Morton, Richard S. Edwards: were converted to ASW destroyers with armament consisted of 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (20 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Mk 15 Hedgehog ASWRL, 1 DCR, SPS-40, SPS-10, SPG-53A radars, SQS-23, SQS-35 sonars, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites

1967-1971, Forrest Sherman, Hull: - 1 x 2 - 76/50, SPS-6 radar, SQS-4 sonar; + SPS-40 radar, SQS-23 sonar

1967-1971, Turner Joy: - 2 x 2 - 76/50, SPS-6 radar, SQS-4 sonar; + SPS-40 radar, SQS-23 sonar

1967-1971, Bigelow: - 2 x 2 - 76/50, SPS-6 radar, SQS-4 sonar; + SPS-37 radar, SQS-23 sonar

1967-1971, Edson: - 1 x 2 - 76/50, SPS-6 radar, SQS-4 sonar; + SPS-37 radar, SQS-23 sonar

1967-1971, Mullinix: - 1 x 2 - 76/50, SPS-6 radar, SQS-4 sonar; + SPS-12 radar, SQS-23 sonar

Naval service

No significant events.