Service
Cooper, Meredith, Mannert L. Abele, and Drexler were lost during the war, and Hugh W. Hadley was so badly damaged by a kamikaze attack that she was scrapped soon after the war ended. After the war most of the class except some of the light minelayers had their 40-mm and 20-mm guns replaced by 6 3-in (76 mm) and the pole mast was replaced by a tripod to carry the heavier radar. One of the two pentad 21-in (533 mm) torpedo tube mountings had already been removed on most to make way for a quadruple 40-mm gun mounting. 33 ships were converted under the FRAM II program, but not altogether as successful as the Gearings.
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Famous quotes containing the word service:
“It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?”
—Public Service Announcement.
“In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“A man’s real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)