Displacement: 2600 tons. No picture, design or text from this website can be copied and used without written approval. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. They also served as escorts for Carrier Battle Groups (Carrier Strike Groups from 2004) and Amphibious Ready Groups (Expeditionary Strike Groups from 2006). (later cancelled), DD-896 to DD-904 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. after deckhouse, and two triple torpedo tube mountings. Among notable changes are a modified bridge arrangement and Ten 21in (530mm) torpedo tubes were fitted in two quintuple mounts amidships, firing the 21-inch Mark 15 torpedo. Keels for the remaining 47 (DD 809816, 854856 and 891926) were never laid down. Fourteen were built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. (2x5). In Navy slang, the modified destroyers were called "FRAM cans", "can" being a contraction of "tin can", the slang term for a destroyer or destroyer escort. 1940s class of destroyers of the United States Navy, United States naval ship classes of World War II. function MSFPpreload(img) 2 position. // -->