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USS Gearing Class WWII Ship Models

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USS Gearing in 1/700 scale from Skywave
Kit# DC121 - 21.95    6.5" long nice detail.

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Gearing Class

Data for USS Gearing (DD-710) as of 1945

Length overall: 390’ 6"
Length between perpendiculars: 383’ 0"
Extreme Beam: 40’ 10"
Limiting draft: 14’ 4"

Standard Displacement: 2,425 tons
Full Load Displacement: 3,479 tons

Fuel capacity: 4,647 barrels

Armament
Six 5"/38 caliber guns
Two 40mm twin anti-aircraft mounts
Two 40mm quadruple anti-aircraft mounts
Two 21" quintuple torpedo tubes

Complement
20 Officers
325 Enlisted

Propulsion
4 Boilers
2 General Electric Turbines: 60,000 horsepower

Highest speed on trials: 34.6 knots

Ships by Hull Number

Alphabetical Listing

  1. DD 710 Gearing
  2. DD 711 Eugene A. Greene
  3. DD 712 Gyatt
  4. DD 713 Kenneth D. Bailey
  5. DD 714 William R. Rush
  6. DD-715 William M. Wood
  7. DD 716 Wiltsie
  8. DD 717 Theodore E. Chandler
  9. DD 718 Hamner
  10. DD 719 Epperson
  11. DD 720 Castle
  12. DD 721 Woodrow R. Thompson
  13. DD 742 Frank Knox
  14. DD 743 Southerland
  15. DD 763 William C. Lawe
  16. DD 764 Lloyd Thomas
  17. DD 765 Keppler
  18. DD 766 Lansdale
  19. DD 767 Seymour D. Owens
  20. DD 768 Hoel
  21. DD 769 Abner Read
  22. DD 782 Rowan
  23. DD 783 Gurke
  24. DD 784 McKean
  25. DD 785 Henderson
  26. DD 786 Richard B. Anderson
  27. DD 787 James E. Kyes
  28. DD 788 Hollister
  29. DD 789 Eversole
  30. DD-790 Shelton
  31. DD 791 Seaman
  32. DD 805 Chevalier
  33. DD 806 Higbee
  34. DD 807 Benner
  35. DD 808 Dennis J. Buckley
  36. DD 817 Corry
  37. DD 818 New
  38. DD 819 Holder
  39. DD 820 Rich
  40. DD 821 Johnston
  41. DD 822 Robert H. McCard
  42. DD 823 Samuel B. Roberts
  43. DD 824 Basilone
  44. DD 825 Carpenter
  45. DD 826 Agerholm
  46. DD 827 Robert A. Owens
  47. DD 828 Timmerman
  48. DD 829 Myles C. Fox
  49. DD 830 Everett F. Larson
  50. DD 831 Goodrich
  51. DD 832 Hanson
  52. DD 833 Herbert J. Thomas
  53. DD 834 Turner
  54. DD 835 Charles P. Cecil
  55. DD 836 George K. MacKenzie
  56. DD 837 Sarsfield
  57. DD 838 Ernest G. Small
  58. DD 839 Power Photo
  59. DD 840 Glennon
  60. DD 841 Noa
  61. DD 842 Fiske
  62. DD 843 Warrington
  63. DD 844 Perry
  64. DD 845 Baussell
  65. DD-846 Ozbourn
  66. DD-847 Robert L. Wilson
  67. DD 848 Witek
  68. DD 849 Richard E. Kraus
  69. DD 850 Joseph P. Kennedy
  70. DD 851 Rupertus
  71. DD 852 Leonard F. Mason
  72. DD 853 Charles H. Roan
  73. DD 858 Fred T. Berry
  74. DD 859 Norris
  75. DD 860 McCaffery
  76. DD 861 Harwood
  77. DD-862 Vogelgesang
  78. DD-863 Steinaker
  79. DD 864 Harold J. Ellison
  80. DD 865 Charles R. Ware Shipmate
  81. DD 866 Cone
  82. DD 867 Stribling
  83. DD 868 Brownson
  84. DD 869 Arnold J. Isbell
  85. DD 870 Fechteler
  86. DD 871 Damato
  87. DD 872 Forrest Royal
  88. DD 873 Hawkins
  89. DD 874 Duncan
  90. DD 875 Henry W. Tucker
  91. DD 876 Rogers
  92. DD 877 Perkins
  93. DD/DDR 878 Vesole
  94. DD 879 Leary
  95. DD 880 Dyess
  96. DD 881 Bordelon
  97. DD 882 Furse
  98. DD 883 Newman K. Perry
  99. DD 884 Floyd B. Parks
  100. DD 885 John R. Craig
  101. DD 886 Orleck
  102. DD 887 Brinkley Bass
  103. DD-888 Stickell
  104. DD 889 O'Hare
  105. DD 890 Meredith

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