Gearing class
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_in_the_Mediterranean_Sea_in_1960.jpg) The USS Gearing , the lead ship of the Gearing class |
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| Overview | |
| Type | destroyer |
| units | 98 (of 156 planned) |
| Shipyard |
various |
| period of service |
25-30 years (US Navy) |
| Commissioning | 1944-46 (US Navy) |
| Decommissioning | 1970s (US Navy) |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
2,600 ts (standard) |
| length |
119 m (at the waterline ) |
| width |
12.5 m |
| Draft |
4.4 m (standard) |
| crew |
350 |
| drive |
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| speed |
37 kn |
| Range |
8,300 km at 20 kn |
| Armament |
Second World War
Typical equipment in the 1950s
Typical equipment according to FRAM I.
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The Gearing- class was a group of 98 destroyers built for the United States Navy towards the end of World War II . They were very similar to the previous Allen M. Sumner class . The main difference was the larger fuel tank which gave them better range. In the 1970s, the US Navy sold the majority of its gearing destroyers to various countries. Ten ships of the class still exist today, seven of which are museum ships .
The name giver for the type ship of the class came from the Gearing family, who had served in the Navy for three generations.
The first ships of the subsequent Mitscher class were built from 1949 .
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Originally, the gearing destroyers were heavily focused on torpedoes. When the danger from Japanese ships subsided towards the end of the Second World War and the number of kamikaze planes increased, stronger anti-aircraft guns were installed. In the first years after the war and during the Korean War , the anti-aircraft and anti- submarine equipment was modernized. Among other things, the Hedgehog (a grenade weapon for anti-submarine defense) was installed.
As part of the extensive modernization within the framework of the FRAM I and II programs, the destroyers received the latest torpedoes and rockets for submarine hunting, which could also be equipped with nuclear warheads. On May 11, 1962, the Agerholm used a real ASROC nuclear missile during a test .
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- ↑ FRAM . Gyrodynehelicopters.com. September 1, 1962. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
- ↑ Robert Gardiner, Stephen Chumbley: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995. Conway Maritime Press, London: 1995, ISBN 1-55750-132-7 , pp. 562-563, 594.
- ↑ K. Jack Bauer, Stephen S. Roberts: Register of Ships of the US Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants . Greenwood Press, Westport (Connecticut) 1991, ISBN 0-313-26202-0 , pp. 201-206 .