Price and other details may vary based on product size and color. Silverstone, Paul H. "U.S. FREE SHIPPING in the USA - Note that our model prices include shipping and insurance within the USA. The Gearing design was similar to the Sumner class but with a longer hull length of 14 feet to allow for additional fuel (giving the ship a longer range than the Sumner class) and other upgrades including AA armament . 5"/38 dual-purpose gun mount aft, four twin 40mm anti-aircraft guns on the Three have been preserved as museum ships in the U.S. and one in Greece. 44 homing ASW torpedoes. Group B ships also received greater ASROC and torpedo storage areas next to the port side of the DASH hangar.[14][15]. (later cancelled), DD-812 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. The Gearing class was a seemingly minor improvement of the Allen M. Sumner class, built from 1943 until 1945. (815 and 816 later cancelled). Hull - Hunter Killer (Proposed), 1947 BuShips DD-692 Class Electrical DD-763 to DD-769 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco. All Photographs, technical specifications, and The Gearing design was a minor modification of the immediately preceding Allen M. Sumner class. Nine additional (for a total of 35) ships were converted to radar picket destroyers (DDR) in the early 1950s; these typically received only one 3-inch twin mount to save weight for radar equipment, as did the wartime radar pickets. Docking Plan These two plan pages show the amount of detail and 2 5-inch mount or the trainable Hedgehog mount. 1951 BuShips DD-692 Class Hull - Hunter Killer (Proposed) FRAM II ships included six DDRs and six DDEs that retained their specialized equipment (19601961), as well as four DDRs that were converted to DDs and were nearly identical to the Allen M. Sumner class FRAM IIs (19621963). This upgrade program included life-extension refurbishment, a new radar system, Mark 32 torpedo tubes, DASH ASW drone, and variable depth sonar (VDS). The final US destroyer design of World War II the last wartime refinement of the Fletcher conceptwas the Gearing class. Defense Station, 1959's FRAM II Made To Order Cruise Ship & Ocean Liner Models, In Stock Cruise Ship & Ocean Liner Models. They were replaced as ASW ships by the Spruance-class destroyers, which were commissioned 1975-83. With this modification, the Oerlikon cannons were rearranged and their number was standardized at seven; four amidships and three in a heart-shaped mount on the fantail. 2019 - 2023 SD Model Makers. Gibbs & Cox - September 11, 1943. [1][2][3][4], Following World War II most of the class had their AA and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) armament upgraded. Naval However, the date of termination of the SUM-N-2 program is In that time the United States produced 98 Gearing-class destroyers. for the ANCHOR BAR which was stored in the Bos'ns Locker. This was possibly due to inadequate maintenance support, as other services had few difficulties with DASH. (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4 ))); The 40 Sumner s delivered through September 1944 were launched an average of 144 days after keel laying and commissioned after an average of 88 days more, or 232 days totalless than 2/3 the elapsed time for the average Fletcher. Sources: Friedman, Reilly, Sumrall, Whitley. With ASROC continuing to provide a standoff ASW capability, the Gearing FRAM Is were retained in service for several years, with most being decommissioned and transferred to foreign navies 1973-80. The FRAM II program was designed primarily for the Sumner-class destroyers, but sixteen Gearings were upgraded as well. DD-873 to DD-890 awarded to Consolidated Steel, Orange. BuShips - August 3, 1945, 1947 DD-692 Class Long On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. for alterations to the SMOKEPIPES, Plans Carpenter was the most thorough DDE conversion, with 4 3-inch/70 caliber guns in twin enclosed mounts, two Weapon Alpha launchers, four new 21-inch torpedo tubes for the Mark 37 ASW torpedo, and one depth charge rack. DD-862 to DD-872 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island. Three are in the United States and one is in Greece, although only Kidd retains her World War II configuration. Velos is the only vessel still in commission. Construction Eighteen were built by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Kearny, New Jersey. Four Fletcher-class destroyers are preserved as museum ships. Among notable changes are a modified bridge arrangement and 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. [5] They could cover the vast distances required by fleet actions in the Pacific and served almost exclusively in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II, during which they accounted for 29 Imperial Japanese Navy submarines sunk. (later cancelled), DD-896 to DD-904 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. Naval Ships website, Plan for the loading calculations of an at sea transfer The Fletcher class (named for Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, Medal of Honor recipient) was the largest destroyer class ordered. United States naval ship classes of World War II. introduces the twin 5"/38 dual-purpose gun mount as a destroyer weapon. Never launched, they were canceled 13 September 1946 and broken up in place. And of course, plans for the Our promise- We will not share your e-mail with any other company- ever! DD-862 to DD-872 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island. 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. // -->
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