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Re: Sumner/Gearing class question

Posted by Ralph Wood on October 24, 2026, 18:56:20, in reply to "Sumner/Gearing class question"

I know what you're talking about, have seen it in photos, and have found a 1943 outboard profile that labels it. Unforunately, at the resolution shown the label can not be read! (What's the point of even putting the image online?) It's atop the B turret:

https://www.dd-692.com/edz/1943plan.jpg

Exasperating. Hopefully someone like Rick E. Davis can chime in and help out.

Here's a photo also showing it atop the B turret, between the guns as you've described. See the dockside image in this group:

https://premierrelics.com/blueprints-1/rare-wwii-1943-uss-allen-m-sumner-dd-692-confidential-blueprint-lt-jensen-usn

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A few messages down from this one was the announcement of the new Triumph Sumner class DD in 1/350 scale.Looking at the photos on the twin 5/38 guns there was at the moment I'll call a pipe. Located on top of the turret behind the 2 barrels.
Causing me to go to my references. The kit has 3 of these "pipes" on top of each 5/38 turret. One per turret.My references show that the 2nd forward turret has one on the real ship. DD-692.Others of the Sumner class also received this "pipe". So what is it? A periscope for gunfire assignments? A navigation light? I don't know. So any one have a idea about this? Thanks in Advance.

it is the "forward anchor light" as the Gearing - David October 24, 2026, 19:33:02
- Re: it is the "forward anchor light" as the Gearing - Craig Bennett October 25, 2026, 05:06:20
  - i think the light lets the other ships know that - David October 25, 2026, 07:53:25
    - Re: i think the light lets the other ships know that - Craig Bennett October 25, 2026, 09:34:35
      - just going by the fact that the BOGPs states - David October 25, 2026, 10:09:53
        
        Re: just going by the fact that the BOGPs states - Craig Bennett October 25, 2026, 11:04:07
        
        BOGP=Booklet of General Plans N/T - Ralph Wood October 25, 2026, 19:16:23
        
        Re: BOGP=Booklet of General Plans N/T - Craig Bennett Yesterday, 06:32:58

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I know what you're talking about, have seen it in photos, and have found a 1943 outboard profile that labels it.  Unforunately, at the resolution shown the label can not be read!  (What's the point of even putting the image online?)  It's atop the B turret:

https://www.dd-692.com/edz/1943plan.jpg

Exasperating.  Hopefully someone like Rick E. Davis can chime in and help out.

Here's a photo also showing it atop the B turret, between the guns as you've described.  See the dockside image in this group:

https://premierrelics.com/blueprints-1/rare-wwii-1943-uss-allen-m-sumner-dd-692-confidential-blueprint-lt-jensen-usn

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A few messages down from this one was the announcement of the new Triumph Sumner class DD in 1/350 scale.Looking at the photos on the twin 5/38 guns there was at the moment I'll call a pipe. Located on top of the turret behind the 2 barrels.
Causing me to go to my references. The kit has 3 of these "pipes" on top of each 5/38 turret. One per turret.My references show that the 2nd forward turret has one on the real ship. DD-692.Others of the Sumner class also received this "pipe". So what is it? A periscope for gunfire assignments? A navigation light? I don't know. So any one have a idea about this? Thanks in Advance.
 
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