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USS Fletcher Class 1950s (Armament
Conversions)
We
now have full color profiles for the thirty-nine (39) Fletcher-class
destroyers that received the 1950s armament update replacing their 40-mm gun
mounts with 3-in. gun mounts. Other class improvements, such as radar and
sonar, were also made at that time. The converted ships had the following
equipment: four 5-in./38 cal. single MK 30 gun mounts, three twin 3-in/50
cal. gun mounts, one quintuple 21-in. MK 14 torpedo tube mount, two MK 10/11
hedgehog mounts, one MK 9 depth charge release track, tripod foremast with
SPS-6 and SPS-10 radars, and QHB sonar. The following ships are available in
this configuration:
USS
Daly (DD-519)
USS Isherwood (DD-520)
USS Ammen (DD-527)
USS Mullany (DD-528)
USS Trathen (DD-530)
USS Heermann (DD-532)
USS Miller (DD-535)
USS The Sullivans (DD-537)
USS Boyd (DD-544)
USS Cowell (DD-547)
USS Hailey (DD-556)
USS Prichett (DD-561)
USS Ross (DD-563)
USS Rowe (DD-564)
USS Stoddard (DD-566)
USS Abbot (DD-629)
USS Braine (DD-630)
USS Hale (DD-642)
USS Stembel (DD-644)
USS Caperton (DD-650)
USS Cogswell (DD-651)
USS Ingersoll (DD-652)
USS John Hood (DD-655)
USS Dashiell (DD-659)
USS Black (DD-666)
USS Cotten (DD-669)
USS Dortch (DD-670)
USS Hunt (DD-674)
USS McDermut (DD-677)
USS McGowan (DD-678)
USS McNair (DD-679)
USS Hopewell (DD-681)
USS Picking (DD-685)
USS Uhlmann (DD-687)
USS Wadleigh (DD-689)
USS Preston (DD-795)
USS Benham (DD-796)
USS Jarvis (DD-799)
USS Rooks (DD-804)
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