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h b t,k WU Shipeof the Unitled States,Navy, not for a'war're d ,USS GEAEiFi.i2E.Z12lQ132152SME- 2? it ,. rut cl1c?siIfii5nedaYS of World War II for longef range Cruising and greater irepower, e ear y statistics ofthe shlP include: . , K 1 l 'd - August 10, 1944 Liinchaed - February 183913545 w Fegprrrglmisshsijogiuiddgnlgflagiljbrydock Company at Port Newark, New jersey completed the construction at the record d . , . paCe15Ti2ItS22SisWri1aime2d,'Sfor three members of a Navy family: COIII-mandef Hef1fY,Qhalf-U12 Geaflrlg H855-l926l, who SaCj1ESerViCe from 1879 to 1909, .and whose daughter, Mrs. Thomas Foley, participated in-the commissioning eere- mony. Captain Henry Chalfant Gearing Q1884-19441, who serveddlfrom l1?07Nto 194345 arifyldrliieutenant Henry Chalfant 'i - ' in action at the Battle of Gua a Cana in ovem er, Gigginygeiig15QElZ,l1l5liIGWhbCorCeileaci1d used efficiently her original weapons: two ahead-thrown weapon mounts, depth Chafges, tofpedoee, three twin .five-inch 38 caliber gun mounts, and five 40 millimeter machine gun mounts. Then, in 1962, as part of the extensive Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization QFRAMP pfOgfaIIj, GEARING was refur- bished and brought up-to-date with the latest Anti-Submarine weapons by Boston Naval Shipyard. One-of the five- inch gun mounts and all the ,older armament were removed,. to be replaced with two above-water triple torpedo launchers located forward of the pilot house, the Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter QDASHD system, carried until March 19685 and the Anti-Submarine Rocket QASROCQ, capable of delivering a conventional torpedo or anuclear charge against a submarine some distance from the ship. I . GEARING has spent her entire lifetime in the Atlantic Fleet. Casco Bay, Maine was her first homeport, and her early' years kept her mainly in Arctic waters. In january, -1951, GEARING sailed to the Mediterranean for the first time, returning to a new homeport of Norfolk, Virginia- Since that time she has averaged a Mediterranean deploy- ment at least once every eighteen months. , From Norfolk, GEARING roamed to Northern ,Europe and the Red Sea as well as the Med,,' and participated in numerous exercises closer to home, including Operation Springboard, tan annual Caribbean eventj, Operation Novorock with the Canadians, the joint Civilian Orientation Cruise, and two Atlantic Fleet Exercises. As a unit of Destroyer Squadron Four, GEARING moved to a homeport of Charleston, South Carolina in 1959. The 196O's'brought several firsts to GEARING. In 1961, while on a South Atlantic Cruise as flagship for Deputy Commander South Atlantic, GEARING was called upon to intercept and apprehend the hijacked Portugese liner Santa Maria. As the first naval ship 'in the area, GEARING became flagshi for the negotiator, Rear Admiral Allen Smith. After FRAM, GEARING left her new homeport of Newport, Rhode Isljand to be the first American ship to participate in the Cuban Blockade, and the first to intercept a Soviet Bloc vessel, the Bucharest,,outof Odessa. In 1965, GEARING patrolled for 40 days off the coast of the Dominican Republic as flagship for her new De- ptroyer Souadron Twenty, during which time she was instrumental in rescuing one of two drifting Dominican ships .rom ipiminent destruction on the coastal rocks. Later that same year, the ship was stationed off Karachi Pak- - . . . . . I ' ilsltraenstor eleven days, ready to evacuate American citizens had the need arisen during that period of politican .In -1967, GEARING participated in the initial missile syst t' l f h l f - , - - Missile submarines, USS' WILL ROGERS, located offnCabaeSKCen1iedv,aFelBii?la.AmerlCa S Fleet Balhstlc I l l VMLHHHU as sne 10014 ' - U M DTT wTiT loaded with armament inecclluilliqnmeghahely Siler Commissioning in 1945, running torpedo tubes. g as can depth charges and straight- A