Talk:USS Townsend

I am speculating on the main armament here. All HT tells us is that Enos' gun was near the fore turret and it had three five inch guns. I checked out OTL WW2 U.S destroyers and found the following. In the inter-war period, the standard was for four or five single gun turrets with 4, 4.5 or 5 inch guns. Early in WW2 the configuration was changed to four 5" guns in two double gun turrets, one fore and the other aft. Later in the war, destroyers were stretched to allow for more fuel and other supplies for longer cruises. This created enough room for another fore two gun turret for a total of six main guns. There were no designs with triple gun turrets for destroyers although that was standard with cruisers. I am assuming the six gun max so have only two turrets of three guns each. If I find differently later, I will edit the article. ML4E 01:32, 18 April 2008 (UTC)