DDR 882
Built in Texas as a radar picket ship.
Builder: Consolidated, Orange, Texas
Laid Down: September 23, 1944
Launched: March 9, 1945
Commissioned: July 10, 1945
Fate: To Spain August 31, 1972
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The Gearing Class as Constructed
Displacement: 2,616 tons (3,460 tons full load)
Length: 390 feet 6 inches
Beam: 40 feet 10 inches
Draught: 14 feet 4 inches (mean)
Machinery: four Babcock & Wilcox boilers;
2-shaft G.E.C. geared turbines
Performance: 60,000 shp for 36.8 knots
Bunkerage: 740 tons
Range: 4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots
Guns: six 5 inch DP; twelve 40 mm;
eleven 20 mm
Torpedoes: ten 21 inch in two mounts
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