Builder:         Bath Iron Works
Laid Down:       October 7, 1944
Launched:	 March 11, 1945
Commissioned:    May 11, 1945
Decommissioned: 
Fate:            To Taiwan April 18, 1973

The Gearing Class as Constructed

Displacement: 	2,325 tons (2,924 tons full load).
Length:  	376'  5"
Beam:  		39'  7"
Draught:  	13'  9"
Machinery:  	Four Babcock & Wilcox boilers;
                2 -shaft G.E.C.	geared 	turbines.
Performance:  	60,000 shp for 38 knots.
Bunkerage:  	492 tons
Range: 		6,500 nautical miles at 15 knots.
Guns:  		Five 5"; four 20mm; four 1.1"
Torpedoes:      Ten 21"