by Charles Landrum » Sat Feb 02, 2019 9:33 am
I was Ops on Hayler when we did the conversion. With the shift of the SLQ-32 (Bands 2 and 3) antenna to the aft superstructure, two deck houses were fabricated just aft of the main mast, in addition to the SLQ-32 maintenance room outboard to starboard on the 04 level. If I recall these were magazines. On top of these were the aft SRBOC launchers. The starboard deck house was approx 3 feet higher than the port house and so the STBD SRBOC can be seen as circled in red. The port launchers were more hidden by the mast. Further after on the port side was the raised CIWS enclosure putting it over the Port SLQ-32 antenna. I used to call this structure the "CIWS pagoda". Both of the aft SRBOC launchers appear to point 20 degrees abaft the beam or 110 degrees from the bow. This configuration was common to the later Spruances modified - Hayler, Peterson, and Arthur W. Radford, as they were done at the same time.
I was Ops on Hayler when we did the conversion. With the shift of the SLQ-32 (Bands 2 and 3) antenna to the aft superstructure, two deck houses were fabricated just aft of the main mast, in addition to the SLQ-32 maintenance room outboard to starboard on the 04 level. If I recall these were magazines. On top of these were the aft SRBOC launchers. The starboard deck house was approx 3 feet higher than the port house and so the STBD SRBOC can be seen as circled in red. The port launchers were more hidden by the mast. Further after on the port side was the raised CIWS enclosure putting it over the Port SLQ-32 antenna. I used to call this structure the "CIWS pagoda". Both of the aft SRBOC launchers appear to point 20 degrees abaft the beam or 110 degrees from the bow. This configuration was common to the later Spruances modified - Hayler, Peterson, and Arthur W. Radford, as they were done at the same time.