Builder: Bethlehem, Staten Island Laid Down: October 3, 1944 Launched: March 14, 1945 Commissioned: June 23, 1945 Fate: To Pakistan August 1, 1983

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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

USS Harold J. Ellison DD 864 in the Mediterranean (ca 1950)
Photo courtesy Frank Doherty