[13], FRAM I "A" Ships: (First 8 conversions) Removal of aft twin 5-inch gun mount (Mount 53). As the US Navys newest destroyers, none were mothballed after the war. USS DD-743 Southerland (Gearing class Destroyer) 800 x 201: USS DD-743 Sunderland (1945) 796 x 197: USS DD-770 Lowry: 383 x 99: USS DD-79 Benham (1939) 534 x 91: USS DD-793 Cassin Young: 1820 x 473: USS DD-797 Cushing: 590 x 229: USS DD-805 Chevalier: 959 x 629: USS DD-805 Chevalier (1945) 851 x 555: In February 1943, the fantail-mounted Bofors was removed and one twin mount was placed on each side of the aft funnel, bringing the total number of 40mm to six. Ten more unnamed vessels (DD-894, DD-895, and DD-917 to DD-924) awarded to Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, and four more (DD-905 to DD-908) awarded to Boston Navy Yard, and another two (DD-925 and DD-926) awarded to Charleston Navy Yard, were all cancelled on 27 March 1945. After the Yang-class destroyers were decommissioned, the SM-1 launch boxes were moved to Chi Yang-class frigates to improve their anti-air capability. Email us at: Gyrodyne_History@Yahoo.comThe name "Gyrodyne" in its stylized function MSFPpreload(img) This 30 September 1941 plan, for a 2200-ton (standard displacement) ship, Styles" Book # 3 (1939-1944) Twenty XSUM-N-2 prototypes were built, and flight-tested around 1950. altered from the earlier schemes in the Scheme "B" series. DD-805 to DD-808 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. The Gearing Class Frigate was for all intents and purposes, a missle (sic) boat. // -->