Benham-class

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Benham-class [r]: U.S. Navy destroyers of the general layout of the Gridley-class, but with a higher pressure power plant, thus needing one less stack than the Bagley-class; in wartime, traded torpedo tubes for more antiaircraft and antisubmarine armament [e]

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