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USS Wiltsie
DD-716
(Gearing Class)
The Wiltsie in Pearl Harbor with the USS Carpenter along
side. For another picture, follow
this
link to NavSource.
Builder: Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.
Laid Down: 13 March 1945
Launched: 31 Aug. 1945
Completed: 11 Jan. 1946
Commissioned: 12 Jan. 1946
Decommissioned: 23 January 1976
Fate: Pakistani Navy, Renamed Tariq (D-165)
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We are seeking information on the history of the USS Wiltsie and her
crews. Files may be
E-mailed
to us and we will incorporate them into these pages.
The Gearing Class has a new web master handling all of the e-mails for
this class.
His name is Robert Lane.
The Gearing Class as Constructed
Displacement: 2,425 tons (3,479 tons full load)
Length: 390 feet 6 inches
Beam: 40 feet 10 inches
Draught: 14 feet 4 inches (mean)
Machinery: four Babcock & Wilcox boilers;
2-shaft G.E.C. geared turbines
Performance: 60,000 shp for 35 knots
Bunkerage: 740 tons
Range: 4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots
Guns: six 5 inch DP; twelve 40 mm;
eleven 20 mm
Torpedoes: ten 21 inch in two mounts
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To view e-mail posted for the USS Wiltsie
click on the Fleet Post Office:
Many Thanks to NavSource
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