gearing class destroyer layout
First Platform The initial design retained the Sumners' heavy torpedo armament of 10 21" (533mm) tubes in two quintuple mounts, firing the Mark 15 torpedo. In that time the United States produced 98 Gearing-class destroyers. November 24, 1961, A Sincere Thank You to Chuck if(MSFPhover) { MSFPnav10n=MSFPpreload("_derived/destroyer_tenders.htm_cmp_clearday110_hbtn.gif"); MSFPnav10h=MSFPpreload("_derived/destroyer_tenders.htm_cmp_clearday110_hbtn_a.gif"); } (On several ships the two forward 5-inch mounts remained and the aft 5-inch mount was removed.) Under the most advanced Wu Chin III upgrade program, all World War II vintage weapons were removed and replaced with four Hsiung Feng II surface-to-surface missiles, ten SM-1 (box launchers), one 8-cell ASROC, one Otobreda 76 mm (3 in) gun, two Bofors 40 mm (1.6 in)/70 AA, one 20 mm Phalanx CIWS and two triple 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes. The DASH ASW drones were not acquired, but hangar facilities aboard those ships that had them were later used to accommodate ASW versions of MD 500 Defender helicopters. The Gyrodyne Helicopter Historical Foundation (GHHF) is a In 1941, the US Navy began building a fleet of large destroyers, its first design to rival the Japanese "special type" destroyers that had first entered service more than a decade before. The main differences were that the Gearings were 14ft (4.3m) longer in the midship section, allowing for increased fuel tankage for greater range, an important consideration in Pacific War. A limitation of drones in ASW was the need to re-acquire the target at ranges beyond the effectiveness of the controlling ship's sonar. The last Gearing-class destroyer in US naval service was William C. Lawe, a FRAM I, decommissioned and struck 1 October 1983, and expended as a target 14 July 1999. Box 3838, Reno, Nevada USA 89505 ROKS Kang Won (ex-William R. Rush), formerly a museum near Busan, South Korea, was scrapped as of December 2016. Four unnamed vessels (DD-809 to DD-812) awarded to Bath Iron Works, and five others (DD-813, DD-814, and DD-854 to DD-856) awarded to Bethlehem at Staten Island, were cancelled on 12 August 1945. Naval Ships website, Plan for the loading calculations of an at sea transfer Photographs of the six retained DDRs show no markings on the DASH landing deck, as well as a much smaller deckhouse than was usually provided for DASH, so they may not have been equipped with DASH. Grebe never became operational, reportedly because none of the then existing sonars could match the missile's range. // -->