USS Chevalier
DD 805 (Gearing Class)

Builder: Bath Iron Works Corpn. Laid Down: June 12,1944 Launched: October 29,1944 Completed: January 9,1945 Commissioned: January 9,1945 Transferred: Korea July 5,1972 Stricken: from the United States Navy List June 2,1975 Fate: Sold to Korea January 31,1977 and renamed CHUNG BUK, DD-915.

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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 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;
          Torpedoes:     ten 21 inch in two mounts

USS Chevalier DD 805