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
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...
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.
visits since June 10, 1997.
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