by SeanF » Mon Nov 03, 2025 3:22 pm
Photos are few and far between on these ships, of course, but there is a dazzle camo option for sister ship USS Lamson DD-18:
https://www.navsource.net/archives/05/pix1/0501806.jpg
(Unfortunately, it's the second ship in line, not the one in the foreground)
She has the same funnel arrangement as Smith, so no notable surgery involved. (Note that the sister ships in this class all had four funnels, but had three different arrangements of them depending which yard they were built in: Cramp's DD-17 & 18: I-II-I, NY's DD-19: I-I-I-I, Bath's DD-20&22: II-II. The kit is set up for DD-17 specifically, but I bet it wouldn't be too hard to tweak it into the others.)
And a historical note, not mentioned in the review: The reason these were scrapped right after WWI instead of being sold off or lingering in the coast guard or reserves as so many other early DDs: this was the last class of USN destroyers to be coal-fired, which was pretty well out of fashion by then and no real value to convert when so many surplus DDs were already oil-burners. Pretty early adoption of oil-firing in the USN, from the 1910 commissioning of DD-22!
- Sean F.
Photos are few and far between on these ships, of course, but there is a dazzle camo option for sister ship USS Lamson DD-18:
https://www.navsource.net/archives/05/pix1/0501806.jpg
(Unfortunately, it's the second ship in line, not the one in the foreground)
She has the same funnel arrangement as Smith, so no notable surgery involved. (Note that the sister ships in this class all had four funnels, but had three different arrangements of them depending which yard they were built in: Cramp's DD-17 & 18: I-II-I, NY's DD-19: I-I-I-I, Bath's DD-20&22: II-II. The kit is set up for DD-17 specifically, but I bet it wouldn't be too hard to tweak it into the others.)
And a historical note, not mentioned in the review: The reason these were scrapped right after WWI instead of being sold off or lingering in the coast guard or reserves as so many other early DDs: this was the last class of USN destroyers to be coal-fired, which was pretty well out of fashion by then and no real value to convert when so many surplus DDs were already oil-burners. Pretty early adoption of oil-firing in the USN, from the 1910 commissioning of DD-22!
- Sean F.