Gearing-class destroyer - Wikipedia
The Gearing class was a series of 98 destroyers built for the U.S. Navy during and shortly after World War II. The Gearing design was a minor modification of the Allen M. Sumner class, whereby the hull was lengthened by 14 ft (4.3 m) at amidships, which resulted in more fuel storage space and increased the operating range.
Gearing class Destroyers (1945) - Naval Encyclopedia
2023年12月7日 · In the late 1950s-early 1960s, seventy-nine Gearing-class destroyers were taken in hands for extensive modernization under the FRAM I program or project SCB 206. The Gearing were originally designed as anti-aircraft destroyer …
Gearing-class destroyers in World War II
The final US destroyer design of World War II—the last wartime refinement of the Fletcher concept—was the Gearing class. As with the Fletchers, the Allen M. Sumner class was satisfactory in most respects, but not all.
Gearing-class - USN Destroyers
2019年5月16日 · The Gearing class was a series of 98 destroyers built for the U.S. Navy during and shortly after World War II. The Gearing design was a minor modification of the Allen M. Sumner class, whereby the hull was lengthened by 14 ft (4.3 m) at amidships, which resulted in more fuel storage space and increased the operating range.
Allen M. Sumner-Gearing Class Home Page - Destroyer History
The US Navy’s most advanced destroyers of World War II—ships that, had the war continued, would have been in the forefront during battles vs. suicide planes in an assault on Japan—were the 2,200-tonners of the Allen M. Sumner and Gearing classes. Their design characteristics were particularly forward-looking, anticipating the deployment ...
GEARING destroyers (1944 - 1952) - NAVYPEDIA
In design of Gearing class the basic lack of Allen М Sumner, their overload called by installation of additional antiaircraft armament has been corrected. At the expense of an inserted amidships 4.3m section the fuel stowage was possible to increase almost in one and a half time.
List of Gearing Class Destroyers - Warships History
An Overview and a List of the Gearing Class Destroyers. Learn all about the United States' twenty-third Gunboat Destroyer Class here!
USS Gearing - Wikipedia
USS Gearing (DD-710) was the lead ship of her class of destroyers in the United States Navy. She was named for three generations of the Gearing family, Commander Henry Chalfant Gearing Sr., Captain Henry Chalfant Gearing Jr. and Lieutenant Henry Chalfant Gearing, III.
The destroyer USS GEARING (DD-710) is one of the best known ships of the US. Navy—she was one of the first (the leader, as her Latin motto "DUX" implies) of what was to become known as the GEARING (or long hull) Class Destroyer, a svelte
DD-710 Gearing Class - GlobalSecurity.org
The pre-eminent destroyer to emerge from World War II - the Gearing class - with the help of the Fleet Rehabilitation And Modernization program (FRAM I) - survived for over three decades as a...