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PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 10:33 pm 
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I hope that someone can help me. I recall seeing a photo(s) of the USS Arthur W. Radford forward mast sitting on the pier when they were cutting her up prior to being sunk. If any one can post the photo(s) or give me a link that would be great. I am currently working on a 1/96 scale model of her.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 5:07 am 
Hi, all,

I am building the USS Elliot and USS Cushing in 1/350, from the Dragon kits. They are lacking the twin triple Mk.32 ASW torpedo-launchers. I want to use the Veteran resin launchers, but somehow I cannot find pics showing their exact location.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:03 pm 
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They are hidden behind sliding doors on the superstructure, just under the flight deck, so there is no need to model them.

Written source: http://books.google.ca/books?id=rju7k8l ... es&f=false

And this image and its caption confirms it: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... _Tubes.jpg

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:58 pm 
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Actually the torpedo rooms are on the main deck (the fantail is the main deck) and the exterior doors are in the upper hull. Each door is accurately represented in the Dragon kit as a rectangular depression in the hull near the aft end of the flight deck. The doors hydraulically pull in and slide aft allowing the tubes to train 90 degrees out.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:01 pm 
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Thanks for the clarification, Charles!

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:05 pm 
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Here are some interior shots of said tubes.

DD-997 - Under Construction 1982
http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html#guid=cf86185e7eb47cd16c101d88c1b223944b476e6c
http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html#guid=ddaa6be9fbe4f0bd206756aaa7c7d59ee2963e8c

DD-984 - 1984
http://www.defenseimagery.mil/imagery.html#a=search&s=DN-ST-87-02993&guid=a5c90d211fa3912dcfaf77b71382918edb636339

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:34 pm 
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Great photos thanks! I owned the torpedo rooms on USS KIDD from 1983 - 1986 and later served on HAYLER. The one pics shows that my 30 year old memory of how the door opens may be rusty. I think the doors raised instead of sliding. Each torpedo room had a Pneumatic chain hoist/gantry crane and the torpedoes were stored in racks. So the torpedoes could be easily moved for re-load pr put on a dolly for movement to the other torpedo room or raised to the flight deck. Unlike the SPRUANCE Class, the KIDD Class did not have a torpedo magazine in the hangar. I am unsure of the TICONDEROGA Class, but my guess is that they did not.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:33 am 
Hi, guys, thanks for the replies on the location of the torpedotubes! Great stuff!

Hmm other question though: did the modernized Spruances (e.g. the Cushing, which I want to model late in her career) also receive the Mk. 38 chain gun? If so, same question, where was it located?

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:08 am 
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I think the the 2,5 cm Bushmaster guns were midships, approximately below the Harpoon launchers.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 8:57 am 
Hi, David,

yes, I am aware, it is basically the same issue as with the Tico and the Kidd kits, both of which I have built. Lots of good old Evergreen plasticard and filler...;-). Thx for the message, however.

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Walter wrote:
Hi, guys, thanks for the replies on the location of the torpedotubes! Great stuff!

Hmm other question though: did the modernized Spruances (e.g. the Cushing, which I want to model late in her career) also receive the Mk. 38 chain gun? If so, same question, where was it located?

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They were mounted midships, just before the boats and just aft of the midships superstructure doors, right at the deck edge. Check out my USS Moosbrugger in the gallery. I have them installed. I used the Veteran Chain gun.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:15 am 
Hi, John,

thx! Viewed the pics of your "Moosbrugger". Nice build!

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Thank you Walter, I really enjoyed making her.

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building now my 'same age' class... :big_grin: in 1/700

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Hi,

This is my first post here, though I've been lurking around for quite a while. So, I'm currently building Dragon's 1/350 USS Cushing kit, and is planning to convert it to the EDD-964 SDTS ship. It was hard to find a clear quarter view picture of that ship. I've found a thread here with a link to an excellent pictures of EDD-964, but it seems there's a difference around the area on the old helo deck just after the hargar door. I've circled the 'mysterious' structure in the picture I attached with this post (sorry, I kept getting failure message trying to link to the picture using img tag)

That one is the picture from around 2011, I believe. Pretty sure that structure wasn't there in the picture in this link:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/spruance-class-destroyer-uss-paul-f-foster-dd-964/view/?service=1

I wonder if anyone have a clear picture of that area when she was testing the shipboard alternative fuel in 2011?

Thanks ^_^


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 11:42 am 
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Hey guys, did anyone pick up a set of jpeg plans of the Spruance Class from NAVSEA when they were publicly available? Must have been uploaded a couple years ago, but now the links are dead. If so, can anyone email me a copy?

This is the link that had the images: http://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Team-Ships/NAVSEA-21/Inactive-Ships/Artificial-Reefing/Reefing-Archives/DD-963-Class-Drawings/

Thanks in advance!


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 12:08 pm 
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Don't have copies that I can recall, but emailed them to see if I can get copies. If I get them I'll pop them up on my site for everyone. Either way I'll update when I get a response.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 3:55 pm 
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Tracy, thanks for your help, by the way, I really appreciate the South Dakota general plans you uploaded onto your site!

DavidP, pm sent.


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I don't want to become strictly a plans site or a damage report site, but I do like to post useful things that people will find useful.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 07, 2016 8:13 pm 
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I had to re-organize my plans "page" as I was getting more of them from different sources.

Main Page is here. I PM'd the SoDak plan link and will update this post with the SpruCan Plans when I get them up.

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