Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "USS Ward - Guide 267" video.

  1.  @unclestone8406  Not a 3 incher, Ward still had her original 4/50 inchers at that time
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  2. There was a pre-FRAM FRAM program that replaced all 4-inch and the after torpedo tubes with 3-inchers, added 20mm Oerlikons (Flying Bridge, 2 on the Mid-ships deckhouse and two in a band stand aft of the surviving torpedo tubes) and added K-guns (depth charge throwers) using space vacated by the torpedo tubes. Later they had Hedgehog added aft of Number One gun. Almost all had one or two boilers and stacks removed. The lower half of the former boiler rooms became additional oil bunkers and the upper half became berthing for the increased wartime crews. Almost all the conversions served in the Battle of the Atlantic. https://www.bohme.com/collections/new-new-arrivals?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=pin&utm_campaign=Q3_%7C_Moments&utm_content=Return_to_office&utm_term=687221369724&pp=0&epik=dj0yJnU9U1o3MkR6TG5hQ2tOMHZNd1hNSU43b2lOcm9GMmJsUU4mcD0xJm49R0w3ZTRpOEthTE5jRks2eXBJa3NuUSZ0PUFBQUFBR0h5NFpB
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  3. Along with HMS Skate - If Allen was older it was a matter of months
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  4.  @inyobill  Let me point out that the RN was fighting the Battle of the Atlantic with equally ancient V and W class DD's and some poor sods were doomed to the half dozen S class remaining and sole surviving R class ship, HMS Skate (1916), which was, believe it or not, at Normandy. Skate's equivalent in the USN was the USS Allen, also vintage 1916, which served as a guard ship at Pearl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Skate_(1917) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Allen_(DD-66)
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  5.  @lawrencelewis2592  To Fast Transports (APD), High Speed Minesweepers (DMS), Light Minelayers (DM) and Seaplane Tenders (AVD), most of all types that survived ended up stripped of most of their guns as high speed targets and target towers for aircraft (AG). They were replaced by ex-DE's (APD), ex-Benson/Livermore class DD's (DMS) and ex-Sumner class DD's (DM)
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  6.  @nicholasconder4703  Let me point out that the biggest ship's reservists commanded in World War Twice were ancient DD's and roughly equal sized DE's
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  7.  @mpetersen6  Actually the first shots of the war against Japan had been fired by the USS Panay (PR-5) in 1937
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