USS Gearing
Service
- as Gearing3 May 1945 — 1973122 days of the war
- Name
- USS Gearing
- Pennant / hull number
- DD-710
- Namesake
- Gearing family
- Builder
- Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. of Kearny, New Jersey
- Laid down
- 10 August 1944
- Launched
- 18 February 1945
- Commissioned
- 3 May 1945
- Decommissioned
- 1973
- Struck
- 1 July 1973
- Fate
- Sold for scrap on 6 November 1974. (1974)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 2,616 long tons (2,658 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 3,460 long tons (3,516 t)
- Length
- 119.05 m (390.6 ft)
- Beam
- 12.22 m (40.1 ft)
- Draught
- 4.39 m (14.4 ft)
- Speed
- 36.8 knots (68.2 km/h, 42.3 mph)
- Range
- 4,500 nmi (8,334 km)
- Complement
- 336
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
(DD-710; dp. 2,425; l. 390'6"; b. 40'10"; dr. 18'6"; s. 84.6 k; cpl. 345; a. 6 5". 12 40mm., 2 21" tt, 6 dcp, 2 dct. cl. Gearing )
Gearing (DD-710) was named for three generations of naval men. Henry Chalfant Gearing, born 9 June 1855 at Pittsburgh, Pa., graduated from the Naval Academy in 1876. Gearing served on various ships of the Navy during his early years, including Lackawana, Tuscarora, and Essex. He spent tours of duty at the Naval Academy and on board Glacier. After being promoted to Commander in 1905, Gearing commanded the naval stations at Cavite and Olongapo, P.I., until his retirement in 1909. He died 16 August 1926 at Charlottesville, Virginia.
Henry Chalfant Gearing, Jr., born 22 January 1887 at Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from the Naval Academy in 1907. He served on California, Illinois, and other ships besides commanding a long list of destroyers, among them Woolsey, Dobbin, and Maury. He was appointed Captain in 1934. Subsequently, he commanded Destroyer Squadron 4 and Naval Training Station, San Diego, before his death 24 February 1944 at San Diego Naval Hospital.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Gearing (DD-710)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts
- General Electric steam turbines
- 4 boilers
- 60000 shp
- Armament
- 6 x 5 in dual purpose guns
- 12 x 40 mm anti-aircraft guns
- 11 x 20 mm anti-aircraft guns
- 10 x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Sister ships
- USS Abner Read (DD-769)
- USS Benner (DD-807)
- USS Bordelon
- USS Charles P. Cecil
- USS Charles R. Ware (DD-865)
- USS Chevalier (DD-805)
- USS Corry (DD-817)
- USS Dennis J. Buckley (DD-808)
- USS Duncan (DD-874)
- USS Dyess
- USS Eugene A. Greene
- USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830)
- USS Floyd B. Parks
- USS Frank Knox
- USS Fred T. Berry
- USS Furse
- USS George K. MacKenzie
- USS Goodrich
- USS Gurke
- USS Gyatt
- USS Hanson
- USS Harold J. Ellison (DD-864)
- USS Hawkins
- USS Henderson (DD-785)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Gearing on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Gearing (DD-710) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo NH 107006 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons