Gearing Class Destroyer - Procurement and Construction

Procurement and Construction

31 vessels were authorised on 9 July 1942:

  • DD-710 to DD-721 awarded to Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny.
  • DD-742 to DD-743 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
  • DD-763 to DD-769 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco.
  • DD-782 to DD-791 awarded to Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle.

4 vessels were authorised on 13 May 1942:

  • DD-805 to DD-808 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.

3 vessels were authorised on 27 March 1943 under the Vincent-Trammell Act:

  • DD-809 to DD-811 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. (later cancelled)

118 vessels were authorised on 19 July 1940 under the 70% Expansion Act:

  • DD-812 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. (later cancelled)
  • DD-813 to DD-814 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island. (later cancelled)
  • DD-815 to DD-825 awarded to Consolidated Steel, Orange. (815 and 816 later cancelled)
  • DD-826 to DD-850 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
  • DD-851 to DD-853 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy.
  • DD-854 to DD-856 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island. (later cancelled)
  • DD-858 to DD-861 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, San Pedro.
  • DD-862 to DD-872 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island.
  • DD-873 to DD-890 awarded to Consolidated Steel, Orange.
  • DD-891 to DD-893 awarded to Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny. (later cancelled)
  • DD-894 to DD-895 awarded to Consolidated Steel, Orange. (later cancelled)
  • DD-896 to DD-904 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. (later cancelled)
  • DD-905 to DD-908 awarded to Boston Navy Yard. (later cancelled)
  • DD-909 to DD-916 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island. (later cancelled)
  • DD-917 to DD-924 awarded to Consolidated Steel, Orange. (later cancelled)
  • DD-925 to DD-926 awarded to Charleston Navy Yard. (later cancelled)

(Of the missing numbers in this sequence - 722 to 741, 744 to 762, 770 to 781, and 857 were allocated to orders for Allen M. Sumner class destroyers; 792 to 804 were awarded to orders for Fletcher class destroyers.)

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