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USS New
DD-818
Photo Submitted By:
Ed Hagan
Ed's E-mail Address
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We are seeking information on the USS New and her crews.
Files and photos may be emailed
to us and we will incorporate them into this page. When
enough information has been assembled we will then build
the ship her own section.
The
Gearing Class as Constructed
Displacement: 2,616 tons (3,460 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 36.8 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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New (Gearing Class) Laid
down by Consolidated Steel,Orange Texas April 14
1945
Launched August 18 1945 and commissioned April 5
1946.
Stricken July 1 1976. To South Korea February 23
1977.
Renamed Taejon, Still active in South Korean
Navy.
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