WW1 US Large Destroyer (or scout cruisers)

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Instead of the further evolution destroyer's placement of ship guns and in many cases, torpedoes are not set on the centerline of the ship.  Guns and torpedoes are set both on the centerline and to the right and left of the ship's centerline more like a cruiser then a destroyer class.   Second with six guns how well would this design work.  With aft placed torpedoes with a great angle of fire these designs could be fun to play, or a big fat target. 

Large Destroyer -- "Scheme # 1 ... Sept. 10, 1917"
The head of the Bureau of Construction and Repair asked the bureau's Preliminary Design Branch to make "a preliminary pass at a Destroyer Leader" as a means of understanding the issues involved in designing such a ship, a type not previously built for the U.S. Navy. During 20 August to 10 September 1917 three initial, comparative sketch designs were prepared under the heading "Preliminary Design No.192" by Naval Architect James L. Bates. Scheme #1 (seen here), the most ambitious design, was based on using double the machinery installation then being used for the Wickes (Destroyer # 75) class and thus had four propeller shafts.
This plan provides six 5-inch guns and a speed of 35.5 knots in a ship 390 feet long on the load water line (L.W.L.), 37 feet 6 inches in beam, with a normal displacement of 2,565 tons.
Note: The original document was ink on linen (black on white).

Large Destroyer -- "Scheme # 2 ... Sept. 10, 1917"
The second of three initial, comparative preliminary designs prepared by the Bureau of Construction and Repair's preliminary design staff, under the heading "Preliminary Design No.192", intended to suggest the issues involved in producing much larger destroyers than those previously built for the U.S. Navy. This particular design was based on a machinery plant 50 per cent larger than that employed in the Wickes (Destroyer # 75) class destroyers then building.
This plan provides six 5-inch guns and a speed of 33 knots in a ship 355 feet long on the load water line (L.W.L.), 35 feet 6 inches in beam, with a normal displacement of 2,100 tons.
Note: The original document was ink on linen (black on white).