Gearing Class Destroyer
The Gearing class was a group of 98 destroyers built for the US Navy during and shortly after World War II. The Gearing design was a minor modification of the immediately preceding Allen M. Sumner class. The hull was lengthened 14 ft (4.3 m) amidships, creating more storage space for fuel, thus giving the ships a larger range than the Sumners.
The first Gearings were not ready for service until mid-1945, so they saw relatively little wartime service. They continued serving, with a series of upgrades, until the 1970s. At that time many were sold to other nations, where they served many more years.
Four Gearing-class ships still exist, as museum ships: USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD-850) in Fall River, MA, and USS Orleck (DD-886) in Lake Charles, LA, the Turkish ship TCG Gayret (D-352) formerly USS Eversole (DD-789) in Izmit, Turkey and the Mexican ship ARM Netzahualcóyotl (D-102) formerly USS Steinaker (DD-863).
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