USS Gearing (DD-710)
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USS Gearing (DD-710) in 1960
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| Name: | Gearing |
| Namesake: | Gearing family |
| Builder: | Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. of Kearny, New Jersey |
| Laid down: | 10 August 1944 |
| Launched: | 18 February 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 3 May 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 1973 |
| Struck: | 1 July 1973 |
| Identification: | DD-710 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap on 6 November 1974. |
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| Class and type: | Gearing-class destroyer |
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| Length: | 390.6 ft (119.1 m) |
| Beam: | 40.10 ft (12.22 m) |
| Draft: | 14.4 ft (4.4 m) |
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| Speed: | 36.8 knots (68.2 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,500 nmi (8,330 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 336 |
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USS Gearing (DD-710) was the lead ship of her class of destroyers in the United States Navy. She was named for three generations of the Gearing family, Commander Henry Chalfant Gearing, Sr., Captain Henry Chalfant Gearing, Jr. and Lieutenant Henry Chalfant Gearing, III.
Gearing was launched on 18 February 1945 by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, New Jersey. Gearing was sponsored by Mrs. Thomas M. Foley, daughter of Commander Gearing and commissioned 3 May 1945 with Commander T. H. Copeman in command.
After shakedown off Cuba, Gearing reached Norfolk 22 July 1945 and trained precommisioning crews for other destroyers until putting in at Casco Bay, Maine, 5 October. Subsequently Gearing put in at Pensacola, Florida, 4 November to screen the aircraft carrier Ranger during carrier qualification operations.
Returning to Norfolk 21 March 1946, she conducted peacetime operations along the Atlantic coast of North and South America, in the Caribbean, visiting Montevideo, Uruguay; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Gearing sailed 10 November 1947 on her first Mediterranean cruise, calling at Algeria, Malta, Italy, and France before mooring again at Norfolk 11 March 1948.
Peacetime operations along the eastern seaboard and in the Caribbean prepared her for a second cruise to European waters; the destroyer visited most of the nations washed by the Mediterranean from 10 November 1947 to 11 March 1948 and duplicated this long voyage from 4 January to 23 May 1949.
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