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UNITED STATES NAVY (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

TORPEDO SHIPS

GEARING destroyers (1944-1952)

Gearing 1945

Southerland 1945

Brownson 1963

Witek 1965

Gyatt 1968

Carpenter 1955

Basilone 1955

Carpenter 1963

Basilone 1963

Carpenter 1979

Robert A. Owens 1980

Gearing 1963

Richard B. Anderson 1963

Charles H. Roan 1970

William C. Lawe 1979

Kenneth D. Bailey 1963

Lloyd Thomas 1970

Ernest G. Small 1970

Project history: 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. Besides, bigger L/B ratio has allowed even to raise slightly velocity, though Gearing never exceed 32kts at full displacement.

In total 153 ships (from which 98 were been completed) have been ordered. DD857 was completed under Allen M. Sumner design. The order for building of 47 ships that not laid down (DD809-816, 854-856, 891-926), was cancelled in 1945, 2 more ships (DD768 and 769) were broken up on slipways, and 5 incomplete destroyers (DD720, 721, 766, 767 and 791) were suspended and sold for scrap later. Epperson, Basilone, Carpenter, Robert A. Owens were completed as escort destroyers (DDE) and ASW destroyers (DDK):

Modernizations: summer 1945, all completed and survived: - 1 x 5 - 533 TT; + 1 x 4 - 40/56 Mk 1.2

1.1946, all: 3 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 3 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 2, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 11 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 6 DCR, 2 DCT (56)

late 1940s, New, Holder, Rich, Robert L. Wilson, Damato: - 1 x 2 - 127/38, QGA sonar; + 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 14 ASWRL, QHB, QDA sonars

early 1950s, Eugene A. Greene, Gyatt, Kenneth D. Bailey, William R. Rush, McKean, Corry, Ernest G. Small, Fiske, Steinaker, Fechteler, Stickell, Meredith: - 1 x 5 - 533 TT; + SPS-8 radar

early 1950s, all survived: - SG, SR radars; + SPS-6, SPS-10 radars

early 1950s, Carpenter, Robert A. Owens: - 2 x 2 - 76/50, Mk 34 radar; + 2 x 2 - 76/70 Mk 37, 2x Mk 35 radars

1950, Lloyd Thomas, Keppler, Fred T. Berry, Norris, McCaffery, Harwood: - 1 x 2 - 127/38, QGA sonar; + 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 15 ASWRL, QHB, QDA sonars

1950s, almost all survived: - QGA sonar; + 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, QHB sonar

1955, Gyatt: was converted to missile destroyer armed by 1 x 2 Terrier SAM (RIM-2), 2 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90

late 1950s, Witek, Sarsfield: - 1 x 2 - 127/38

late 1950s, al survived: - QHB sonar; + SQS-4 sonar

1962, Gyatt: - 1 x 2 Terrier SAM: + 1 QH-50 DASH helicopter

1960, Perry; 1961, William C. Lawe, Richard B. Anderson, Hollister, Shelton, Agerholm, Noa, Baussell, Ozbourn, Stribling, Meredith; 1962, Gearing, Wiltsie, Theodore E. Chandler, Hamner, Henderson, Johnston, Robert H. McCard, Samuel B. Roberts, Power, Warrington, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Charles H. Roan, Charles R. Ware, Arnold J. Isbell, Forrest Royal, Brinkley Bass; 1963, Eugene A. Greene, James E. Kyes, Eversole, New, Holder, Rich, George K. Mackenzie, Sarsfield, Glennon, Robert L. Wilson, Rupertus, Vogelgesang, Harold J. Ellison, Cone, Fechteler, Henry W. Tucker, Bordelon, Furse, Floyd B. Parks, John R. Craig, Orleck, O'Hare; 1964, Epperson, Southerland, Rowan, Gurke, McKean, Higbee, Dennis J. Buckley, Corry, Basilone, Robert A. Owens, Myles C. Fox, Hanson, Charles P. Cecil, Richard E. Kraus, Leonard F. Mason, Brownson, Damato, Rogers, Vesole, Stickell; 1965, William R. Rush, William M. Wood, Carpenter, Herbert J. Thomas, Fiske, Steinaker, Hawkins, Leary, Dyess, Newman K. Perry were modernized by FRAM-I with data as given in the table.

DD786, 790, 826, 841, 844, 845, 847 and 890 had 127mm guns in 'A' and 'B' positions, others in 'A' and 'Y' positions.

5 - 10.1972, Floyd B. Parks, Anderson, Baussell, Gurke, Henderson, Mackenzie, Mason, Orleck, Tucker: + 1 x 4 Sea Chaparral SAM (12 RIM-72), some destroyers can fire Shrike ARM from roofs of ASROC containers.

1973, Floyd B. Parks, Anderson, Baussell, Gurke, Henderson, Mackenzie, Mason, Orleck, Tucker: - 1 x 4 Sea Chaparral SAM (12 RIM-72)

1960, Kenneth D. Bailey, Goodrich, Turner; 1961, Frank Knox, Lloyd Thomas, Keppler, Ernest G. Small, Fred T. Berry, Norris, McCaffery, Harwood, Duncan; 1962, Chevalier, Perkins; 1963, Benner, Everett F. Larson were modernized by FRAM-II with data as given in the table.

Naval service: No significant events.

Gearing 1945

Carpenter 1975

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