A personal salute with pictures and history to
USS Gearing DD-710
Updated: 3/29/08

COMMANDING OFFICERS

SHIP'S SPECIFICATIONS

9 MORE PHOTOS OF DD-710

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 12 REUNIONS
NEW pix 2/08: San Diego '06
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"Galloping Gearing" was a tin can,
a destroyer, the lead ship of the
U.S. Navy's Gearing class...

  • Click here to go to
    USS Gearing Association
    Historian George Jones' great
    USS GEARING HISTORY website

  • Click here for link to the USS
    GEARING ASSOCIATION website.
    Membership gets you a newsletter,
    member list, reunion information


    GEARING SEA STORIES:
    1961 pirate chase
    1965 rescue


    • NEWS ITEMS:
    2008 REUNION will be in
    Albany, NY, May 28 to June 1.

    * New book from David Sears (Ltjg 69-71) coming
    Oct.'08: At War With the Wind - The Epic
    Struggle with Japan's WWII Suicide Bombers.

    * 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 (1/07).

    * 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.

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