A personal salute with pictures and history to USS Gearing DD-710 Updated: 5/12/12

COMMANDING OFFICERS SHIP'S SPECIFICATIONS 9 MORE PHOTOS OF DD-710 DD-710 STARS IN 1970 RECRUITING FILM 28 YEARS OF SNAPSHOTS 28 YEAR HISTORY RECAP PLANKOWNER LIST SHIP'S PATCHES HEAR the quarterdeck (75k .wav) 1961 CRUISEBOOK download A 1957 HISTORY QUESTION PHOTOS FROM 16 REUNIONS New >>>> Tampa 2012 GEARING SEA STORIES: 1961 pirate chase 1965 rescue Other Web Links ABOUT This Web Page

"Galloping Gearing" was a tin can, a destroyer, the lead ship of the U.S. Navy's Gearing class... DD-710's 2013 reunion: May 15 to 19 at Warwick, Rhode Island T. C. S. Bull Sessions Click here for link to the USS GEARING ASSOCIATION website. Membership gets you a newsletter, member list, reunion information Click here to go to USS Gearing Association Historian George Jones' great USS GEARING HISTORY website

NEWS ITEMS: * Ken Baker (ETN3 62-64) gives Tampa Tribune interview on Gearing Cuban missile crisis intercept. April 2012 * Conrad Hebert (MM2 48-52) celebrates his 80th birthday (3 photos) June 2011 * David Sears (Ltjg 69-71) has published his fourth U.S. Navy history book. June 2011 * DD-710 1971 Lieutenant retires as CNO. * Admiral Vern Clark change of command ceremony, 7/22/05. * USS Gearing sails again in David E. Meadows' novels (11/09). * USS America was sunk for research off of Virginia in May 2005. Gearing sailed with CVA-66 in 1967. Photos. * MSWindows program crash stops new Smart Ship dead in water. * Shipyard overhaul for Gearing model * Sextants Headed for Museums.

visits since June 10, 1997.