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- USS Benson DD-421. USS Benson in 1944 with Measure 32 design 3D (navsource) Comp. 25 July 1940, USS Bensons made her fitting out at Boston, cruise to Portland and shakedown training to Cuba.
- USS Mayo DD-422. Comm. in 18 September 1940, USS Mayo joined the Neutrality Patrol after shakedown. Escorted Marines to Iceland July 1941. Escorted the route to the Atlantic Charter conference August 1941 off NS Argentia, Newfoundland.
- USS Madison DD-425. Com. 6 August 1940, USS Madison took part in Neutrality Patrols, Caribbean and North Atlantic convoys and two diplomatic voyages by January 1941 (escorted Tuscaloosa, Admiral Leahy to Portugal and France as Ambassador to Vichy France) and by In August (Augusta, President to Argentia Bay conference).
- USS Landsdale DD-426. USS Landsdale was commissioned on 17 September 1940 at Boston. Shakedown Caribbean, and from 18 January 1941 Neutrality patrol, Caribbean.
The Fletcher class was a class of destroyers built by the United States during World War II. The class was designed in 1939, as a result of dissatisfaction with the earlier destroyer leader types of the Porter and Somers classes. Some went on to serve during the Korean War and into the Vietnam War.
The Benson class was a class of destroyers of the U.S. Navy built 1939–1943. The thirty 1,620-ton Benson-class destroyers were built in two groups. The first six were authorized in fiscal year 1938 (FY38) and laid down at Bethlehem Steel, Quincy, Massachusetts, and three naval shipyards. [1]
Oct 9, 2023 · The Fletcher class destroyers were the largest in history with 175 ships and the best remembered for their intensive WW2 service, as cold war.
Laid down beginning in 1941, all 175 Fletchers were completed between June 1942 and February 1945, launched an average of 212 days after keel laying and commissioned after an average of 152 days more or 364 days total—nearly 10 per cent faster than the repeat Bensons and Gleaves that preceded them.
In retrospect the Fletchers are often described as the most successful of all American destroyers; fast, roomy, capable of absorbing enormous punishment, and yet fighting on.*
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In fall 1939, the navy began design work on “Destroyer 1941”—the 175‐ship Fletcher class that would bear the brunt of World War II destroyer action. The Fletchers were large ships, designed as torpedo attack vessels, with a secondary mission of antisubmarine defense of the battle fleet.
