This photo was a year 2000 eBay purchase by this webpage author.
The dealer/seller reported that Gearing is pictured here in the Mediterranean
refueling alongside 6th Fleet flagship USS Newport News CA-148.

Need some feedback: Is this Newport News and her 8 inch gun battery?
                    Was it 1951? In the Med.?
Anything else to add about the photo or the event...

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(Judging from photos on the the Newport News web page,
it is very likely that we have correctly ID'd the ship.)