The first ship was the sprucan I was aboard (the Ingersoll DD-990 almost universally known as the Ingerjunk), the second was the Claude V. Ricketts (DDG-5) a Charles F. Adams class. The Aussies did indeed have several of them (four I think, I cannot recall) and the Germans had a pair also.
Ingersoll was not selected for any kind of major retrofits and lasted less than 10 years of active duty (good riddance to bad rubish), the Ricketts had 27 before she went to the reserves and then was scheduled to be scrapped. Last I heard she and her sister ship the Lawrence (our semi-permanent nemesis) were sitting alongside the pier in Philladelphia slowly being cut to pieces.
The OHP guided missile frigates have a single variable pitch prop along with a thruster that gets rid of a lot of the disadvantages.
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