Three have been preserved as museum ships in the U.S. and one in Greece. We offer our Gearing Class Destroyer Models in several popular size/scale offerings for easy ordering and selection. Others carried trainable Hedgehogs. into your mail program and send us your comments! DD-809 to DD-811 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. The other seven are museum ships: ROKN Kang Won (DD-922), formerly USSWilliam R. Rush(DD-714), near Busan, South Korea; TCGGayret(D-352), formerly USSEversole(DD-789), in Izmit, Turkey; ROKN Jeong Buk (DD-916), formerly USSEverett F. Larson(DD-830), near Gangneung, South Korea; ROCS Te Yang (DDG-925), formerly USSSarsfield(DD-837), in Tainan, Taiwan; USSJoseph P. Kennedy, Jr.(DD-850) in Fall River, MA; ROKN Jeong Ju (DD-925), formerly USSRogers(DD-876), near Cheonan, South Korea and USSOrleck(DD-886) in Lake Charles, LA. This 30 September 1941 plan, for a 2135-ton (standard displacement) ship, Superstructure Modification Plans GHHF is dedicated to the advancement of 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. (later cancelled), DD-812 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. Transferred to Republic of China, 1 October 1977 and become museum at An-Pin harbor TAI-NAN, TAIWAN. DD-710 to DD-721 awarded to Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny. The four DDRs converted to DDs were armed with two new 21-inch torpedo tubes for the Mk. One depth charge rack was removed and two Hedgehog mounts added. form above, is the Trademark of and owned by the Gyrodyne Helicopter Historical In June and July 1943, two more twin Bofors mounts were added in place of the 20mm cannons in front of and below the bridge, giving a total of ten. Among the destroyers, conversion of the Gearing and Allen M. Sumner classes took precedence over the Fletcher and Benson classes. The remainder were sunk as targets or scrapped. 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). Foundation; unauthorized use is PROHIBITED by Federal Law. They also served as escorts for Carrier Battle Groups (carrier strike groups from 2004) and Amphibious Ready Groups (Expeditionary Strike Groups from 2006). // -->