Mikoyan's Workshop Strikes Again...

[mikoyan]

http://www.destroyerhistory.org/benson-gleavesclass/ussbailey/index.html

Sometimes as you are digging through ship names, you find something in common. In this case, we share a last name. Anyways, the class this Destroyer is part of is pretty close to the Fletcher except that one of the 5" guns has been replaced with AA guns. I think it has the same torpedo and depth charge mountings. If I were going to do stats about it, it'd probably be like this:

M - 3 3 2 (represent 1 less gun, sort of)
AA - 7 (represent actual AA guns)
ASW - 5
Torpedo - 2 2

Not sure what other effect I would give...

http://wentworth-ltd.org/bailey1.JPG
http://wentworth-ltd.org/bailey2.JPG
http://wentworth-ltd.org/bailey3.JPG

[Rokossovsky]

They were still under treaty tonnage limits and tried to achieve the later unrestricted Fletchers' ideal of 5 5" guns and 10 tubes. However, antiaircraft armament soon became a priority which meant a lessening.

I've done a cardstock model of all 3 major variants -- you can see the photo of my 1:300 cardstock USS Macomb on my webpage:

1. 5 5" guns, 5 tubes

2. 4 5" guns, 10 tubes

3. 4 5" guns, 5 tubes but more/40mm armament. This was Macomb's configuration in the Atlantic, but there weren't enough 40mms yet, so she shipped 20mms in the tubs.

Your version is Gwin's configuration just before it was sunk, but to compensate for the weight of the 40mm guns ... and everything else ... the aft turrets were open.