“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.”

 

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The Gearing Class Destroyer as Originally Constructed

Displacement: 2,616 tons (3,460 tons full load)
Length: 390 feet 6 inches
Beam: 41 feet 6 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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FRAM 1 modernization completed October 1962

Displacement: approx. 3,500 tons full load
Length: 390 feet 6 inches
Beam: 41 feet 6 inches
Draught: 19 feet (mean)
Propulsion: Steam turbines, 4 boilers,
2 propeller shafts, 60,000 shp, speed 35+ knots
Crew: approx. 275
Aviation: aft helicopter flight deck and hangar; 2 DASH Drones
Radar: SPA 29 air search; SPS 10 surface search
Sonar: SQS-23 hull mounted
1 8-cell ASROC (Anti-Submarine Rocket) Launcher
2 twin 5″/38 gun mounts fore and aft
2 triple Mark 32 12.75 inch anti-submarine torpedo tubes.

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The pre-eminent destroyer class to emerge from
World War II – the Gearing (DD-710) Class – modernized and enhanced by the
Fleet Rehabilitation And Modernization program (FRAM I)
The Gearing class served for three and a half decades as a primary arm of the fleet.

JOHNSTON was laid down by Consolidated Steel, Orange Texas June 5, 1945.
Launched October 19, 1945; Commissioned August 23, 1946.
Decommissioned in Philadelphia, PA and stricken October 1, 1980

Transferred to Taiwan February 27, 1981
Renamed Chen Yang DD928

Reclassified Guided Missile Destroyer DDG-928
Decommissioned on December 16, 2003
Sunk as a target July 20, 2006
 See her final moments 

Total service – 58 years

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