[2] They were equipped with B&W Bailey Meter Company's new automatic boiler combustion control system, and a modified hurricane bow/anchor configuration.

Four of the destroyers—John Paul Jones, Parsons, Decatur, and Somers—were converted to guided-missile destroyers under SCB 240, armed with Tartar missiles.

[3] As a test platform, the Hull carried the Navy's prototype 8"/55 caliber Mark 71 light-weight gun from 1975 to 1978 when the program was canceled, and the 5-inch mount was restored.

Hull remains the only modern (post–World War II) destroyer-type ship to have carried an 8-inch (203 mm) gun.

Of the 18 completed, nine were disposed of in fleet training exercises, seven were sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping, and two became museums.