Launched: 1938 Displacement: 1764 tons 2313 tons full load
Length: 348ft. Beam: 36ft. Speed: 35kts. Draft: 12ft. Endurance: 6,500 nm (12 kt)
Armament: Guns: 4x5in/38 dual-purpose AA: 2x40mm Twin Bofors, 5x20mm Oerlikons Torpedo Tubes: 2x4 21in
Freed from the 1500-ton per ship limitations, the Sims class ended up badly overweight in its original incarnation. As a result, like most of its predecessors the original 5-gun battery was reduced to 4 just to accommodate a pair of twin Bofors mounts, as well as the addition of depth charge weaponry. The original torpedo battery was to have been 3 mounts as in the Mahan, but the third mount was ommitted to save weight (the extra mounts were later used on the Atlanta-class cruisers.) |
