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S-584-101 Untitled Preliminary Design Plan of a Destroyer, May 18, 1916 Note:

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Title: Untitled Preliminary Design Plan of a Destroyer, May 18, 1916 Note:
Description: Photo #: S-584-101 Untitled Preliminary Design Plan of a Destroyer, May 18, 1916 Preliminary design prepared for the Fiscal Year 1917 destroyers, which became the Wilkes (Destroyers # 75) class. This plan provides four 4-inch guns and a speed of 35 knots in a ship 310 feet long on the load water line (L.W.L.), 30 feet 6 inches in beam, and turbine machinery, with a normal displacement of 1,160 tons. This design differed from the original concept (see Photo # S-584-085), underlying the General Board characteristics promulgated in October 1915, by adoption of a modified hull form that required 1 foot deeper draught allowing a more horizontal placement of propeller shafts, and thus enabling the higher estimated speed of about 35 knots. The original document was ink on linen (black on white). The original plan is in the 1911-1925 Spring Styles Book. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: S-584-101
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