TKMSP7057 - Takom 1/700 Gearing Class Destroyer USS Southerland DD-743 1945

TKMSP7057 - Takom 1/700 Gearing Class Destroyer USS Southerland DD-743 1945

Gearing-Class Destroyers USS DD-743 Southerland 1944 The U.S. Navy's Gearing-class destroyers are an improved version of the Fletcher-class destroyers, with enhanced cruising performance, and are the final development of the Fletcher class. Commissioned in March 1945, initially 152 were planned to be built, but only 98 were produced due to the end of World War II. Navy with refurbishment until the 1970s.