USS Perkins
 DD 877 (Gearing Class)


Contributed by: Thomas Kennedy 


Builder:          Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, TX 
Laid Down:        June 19, 1944
Launched:         Dec. 7, 1944
Completed:        April 5, 1945
Commissioned:     April 5, 1945
Decommissioned:   ?
Fate:             To Argentina, January 15, 1973


We are seeking information on the USS Perkins and her crews. Files and photos may be emailed to us and we will incorporate them into this page.

The Gearing Class has a new web master handling all of the e-mails for this class.
His name is Robert


The Gearing Class as Constructed 

Displacement:  2,425 tons (3,300 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 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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