went aboard and special operations, The Gearing class is a group of 98 destroyers built for the US Navy during and shortly after World War II. These ships, along with Fletcher-class and Allen M. Sumner-class destroyers also acquired then, were upgraded under the WuChin (Chinese: ) I, II, and III programs and known throughout the ROCN as the Yang-class (Chinese: ) destroyers as they were assigned names that all end with the word "Yang". BuShips - December 12, 1950, 1951 BuShips Grebe Missile For individual Gearing-class ships, choose from the menu on the right. This 30 September 1941 plan, for a 2195-ton (standard displacement) ship, Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. The class was designed in 1939, as a result of dissatisfaction with the earlier destroyer leader types of the Porter and Somers classes. By 1948, the payload had been changed to a lighter MK 41 torpedo, and a long-range version with a pulsejet sustainer propulsion was also planned. The hull was lengthened 14 ft (4.3 m) amidships, creating more storage space for fuel, thus giving the ships a longer range than the Sumner s. Note that the bridge arrangement has been // -->. Discover more about the small businesses partnering with Amazon and Amazons commitment to empowering them. Twelve of the first thirteen ships to complete (DDs 7423, 8058, 829 and 87377) were selected in January; twelve more (DDs 83035 and 87883) in May. The Gearing class was a seemingly minor improvement of the previous Sumner class, which were built from 1943 until 1945. Many thanks to Ed Raney of the USS Willard Keith (DD-775) Hull - Hunter Killer (Proposed) However, the date of termination of the SUM-N-2 program is Bureau of Ships' "Spring The remainder were sunk as targets or scrapped. original Fletchers). Had a twin, dual-purpose 5-inch/38 caliber gun mount been available in 1941, the US Navy's next destroyer design after the Benson and Gleaves classes might well have incorporated it instead of five single mounts, attempted unsuccessfully in those classes though successful in the larger Fletcher class that followed. FRAM I and FRAM II conversions were completed 1960-1965. if(MSFPhover) { MSFPnav11n=MSFPpreload("_derived/jmsdf_destroyers.htm_cmp_clearday110_hbtn.gif"); MSFPnav11h=MSFPpreload("_derived/jmsdf_destroyers.htm_cmp_clearday110_hbtn_a.gif"); } The Gearing design was a minor modification of the immediately preceding Allen M. Sumner class. BuShips - March 10, 1951. Also present were Chevalier, Strong and . displayed, showing where it went and it's exact dimensions! The first Gearings were not ready for service until mid-1945 and thus saw little service in World War II. // -->