USS Gearing (DD-710) was launched 18 February 1945 by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny N J, commissioned 3 May 1945.

After shakedown off Cuba, Gearing reached Norfolk; 22 July 1945 and trained precommisioning crews for other destroyers until putting in at Casco Bay. Maine, 5 October Celebration of Navy- Day from 26; to 29 October at New London, Conn., gave 5,000 citizens the chance to board the powerful destroyer. Subsequently Gearing put in at Pensacola, Fla., 4 November to screen carrier Ranger during carrier qualification operations.

Peacetime operations along the eastern seaboard and in the Caribbean prepared her for a second cruise to European waters.

In October 1962 Gearing took part in the American "quarantine" patrol against Cuba as the world trembled on the brink of war. This swift and classic use of power at sea solved the crisis.

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