United States Navy — Destroyer class
Gearing-class destroyer
Gearing class
The class in numbers
- 152 Planned
- 98 Completed
- 54 Cancelled
- 1 Lost
- 5 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer
- Navy
- United States Navy
- In commission
- 1945–1983
- Preceded by
- Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer
- Succeeded by
- Norfolk class
- Operators
- Taiwan, Turkey, Pakistan, Brazil, Mexico, Iran
- Builders
- Bath Iron Works, ME (30)
- Consolidated Steel, TX (27)
- Bethlehem
- Staten Island, NY (11)
- Fore River, MA (4)
- San Pedro, CA (4)
- San Francisco, CA (3)
- Federal Shipbuilding, NJ (10)
- Todd Pacific Seattle, WA (9)
- Subclasses
- Churruca-class destroyer, Chungbuk-class destroyer, Marcílio Dias-class destroyer
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As originally built
- Displacement, standard
- 2,616 long tons (2,658 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 3,460 long tons (3,516 t)
- Length
- 119.02 m (390.5 ft)
- Speed
- 36.8 knots (68.2 km/h, 42.3 mph)
- Complement
- 350
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
- Armament
- As built:
- 6 × 5 in/38 cal guns (in 3 × 2 mounts)
- 12 × 40 mm Bofors AA guns (2 × 4 & 2 × 2)
- 11 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannons
- 2 × Depth charge racks
- 6 × K-gun depth charge throwers
- 10 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- post war configuration:
- 6 × 5 in/38 cal guns (in 3 × 2 Mk 38 DP mounts)
- 6 × 3 in/50 cal guns (2 × 2, 2 × 1)
- 2 × Hedgehog ASW weapons
- 1 × Depth charge rack
- 6 × K-gun depth charge throwers
- Typical after FRAM I (1960-65):
- 4 × 5 in/38 cal guns (in 2 × 2 Mk 38 DP mounts)
- 1 × ASROC 8-cell launcher
- 2 × triple Mark 32 torpedo tubes for Mark 44 torpedoes
- 1 × Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter (DASH)
- Variable Depth Sonar (VDS)
Roster
Holding 55 of the 98 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| USS Abner Read (DD-769) | DD-769 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| USS Benner (DD-807) | DD-807 | 1945 | Scrapped 1975 |
| USS Bordelon | DD-881 | 1945 | Transferred 1977 |
| USS Charles P. Cecil | DD-835 | 1945 | Scrapped 2003 |
| USS Charles R. Ware (DD-865) | DD-865 | 1945 | Target 1981 |
| USS Chevalier (DD-805) | DD-805 | 1945 | Scrapped 2000 |
| USS Corry (DD-817) | DD-817 | 1946 | Scrapped 2002 |
| USS Dennis J. Buckley (DD-808) | DD-808 | 1945 | Scrapped 1974 |
| USS Duncan (DD-874) | DD-874 | 1945 | Target 1980 |
| USS Dyess | DD-880 | 1945 | Transferred 1981 |
| USS Eugene A. Greene | DD-711 | 1945 | Target 1991 |
| USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) | DD-830 | 1945 | Scrapped 2021 |
| USS Floyd B. Parks | DD-884 | 1945 | Scrapped 1974 |
| USS Frank Knox | DD-742 | 1944 | Target 2001 |
| USS Fred T. Berry | DD-858 | 1945 | Scuttled 1972 |
| USS Furse | DD-882 | 1945 | Scrapped 1991 |
| USS Gearing | DD-710 | 1945 | Scrapped 1974 |
| USS George K. MacKenzie | DD-836 | 1945 | Target 1976 |
| USS Goodrich | DD-831 | 1945 | Scrapped 1977 |
| USS Gurke | DD-783 | 1945 | Transferred 1977 |
| USS Gyatt | 1945 | Target 1970 | |
| USS Hanson | DD-832 | 1945 | Target 2006 |
| USS Harold J. Ellison (DD-864) | DD-864 | 1945 | Target 1994 |
| USS Hawkins | DD-873 | 1945 | Scrapped |
| USS Henderson (DD-785) | DD-785 | 1945 | Transferred 1980 |
| USS Henry W. Tucker | DD-875 | 1945 | Target 1996 |
| USS Herbert J. Thomas | DD-833 | 1945 | Sunk |
| USS Higbee | DD-806 | 1945 | Target 1986 |
| USS Hoel (DD-768) | DD-768 | Scrapped 1946 | |
| USS Hollister | DD-788 | 1946 | Sunk |
| USS James E. Kyes | DD-787 | 1946 | Transferred 1973 |
| USS Johnston (DD-821) | DD-821 | 1946 | Target 2006 |
| USS Kenneth D. Bailey | DDG-713 | 1945 | Scrapped 1975 |
| USS Leary (DD-879) | DD-879 | 1945 | Scrapped 1994 |
| USS Leonard F. Mason | DD-852 | 1946 | Sunk 2003 |
| USS Lloyd Thomas (DD-764) | DD-764 | 1947 | Sunk 2002 |
| USS McCaffery | DD-860 | 1945 | Scrapped 1974 |
| USS McKean (DD-784) | DD-784 | 1945 | Sunk 1987 |
| USS Myles C. Fox (DD-829) | DD-829 | 1945 | Transferred 1980 |
| USS Newman K. Perry | DD-883 | 1945 | Scrapped 1999 |
| USS Noa (DD-841) | DD-841 | 1945 | Scrapped 1991 |
| USS Norris | DD-859 | 1945 | Scrapped 1994 |
| USS O’Hare | DD-889 | 1945 | Scrapped 1992 |
| USS Power (DD-839) | DD-839 | 1945 | Scrapped 2013 |
| USS Richard B. Anderson | DD-786 | 1945 | Sunk |
| USS Rogers (DD-876) | DD-876 | 1945 | Transferred 1981 |
| USS Rowan (DD-782) | DD-782 | 1945 | Wrecked 1977 |
| USS Sarsfield | DD-837 | 1945 | Transferred 1977 |
| USS Shelton (DD-790) | DD-790 | 1946 | Sunk 2002 |
| USS Southerland | 1944 | Target 1997 | |
| USS Steinaker | DD-863 | 1945 | Transferred 1982 |
| USS Turner (DD-834) | DD-834 | 1945 | Scrapped 1970 |
| USS Vesole | DD-878 | 1945 | Target 1983 |
| USS Vogelgesang (DD-862) | DD-862 | 1945 | Transferred 1982 |
| USS Warrington (DD-843) | DD-843 | 1945 | Transferred 1973 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Gearing-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.