USS Bordelon DD 881

USS Bordelon
DD 881
(Gearing Class)

Photo courtesy Frank Doherty [email protected]

Builder: Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, TX Laid Down: September 9, 1944 Launched: March 3, 1945 Completed: June 5, 1945 Commissioned: June 5, 1945 Stricken: February 1, 1977 Fate: Iran for spares

We are seeking information on the history of the USS Bordelon 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.

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; Geared turbines. 2-shafts. Performance: S.H.P.: 60,000 = 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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