Scale:1/192
Length:24"

USS Gearing (DD-710) was the lead ship of her class of destroyers in the United States Navy. She was named for three generations of the Gearing family, Commander Henry Chalfant Gearing, Sr., Captain Henry Chalfant Gearing, Jr. and Lieutenant Henry Chalfant Gearing, III. Gearing was launched 18 February 1945 by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, New Jersey; sponsored by Mrs. Thomas M. Foley, daughter of Commander Gearing; and commissioned 3 May 1945, Commander T. H. Copeman in command.