She was canceled 7 January 1946; her hulk was launched 7 May, but not sold for scrapping until 12 September 1961. In place of mount 52, a practice 5-inch reloading machine was installed with the MK-32 triple torpedo launchers aft of the loader. Under the most advanced Wu Chin III upgrade program, all World War Two vintage weapons were removed and replaced with 4 Hsiung Feng II SSM, 10 SM-1disambiguation needed (box launchers), 1 8-cell ASROC, 1 76 mm gun, 2 40 mm/70 AA, 1 20 mm Phalanx CIWS and 2 triple 12.75" torpedo tubes. 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. USS Sarsfield (DD-837) Gearing Class destroyer in 1945. Docking Plan [citation needed], The Gyrodyne QH-50C DASH was an unmanned anti-submarine helicopter, controlled remotely from the ship. Three twin 5in (127mm)/38 caliber Mark 38 dual purpose (DP) mounts constituted the main battery. After the Gearing-class ships were retired from USN service, many were sold abroad, including over a dozen to the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) in Taiwan. Sonar Installation, 1951 BuShips Grebe Missile Fourteen were built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. During this era the ASROC system had an effective range of only 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi), but the DASH drone allowed the ship to deploy ASW attack to sonar contacts as far as 22 nautical miles (41 km; 25 mi) away. On 11 May 1962, Agerholm tested a live nuclear ASROC in the "Swordfish" test. "Spring Styles" plans usually represent only some of the options 31 vessels were authorized on 9 July 1942: 4 vessels were authorized on 13 May 1942: 3 vessels were authorized on 27 March 1943 under the VinsonTrammell Act: 114 vessels were authorized on 19 July 1943 under the 70% Expansion Act: (Of the missing numbers in this sequence - 722 to 741, 744 to 762, 770 to 781, and 857 were allocated to orders for Allen M. Sumner-class destroyers; 792 to 804 were awarded to orders for Fletcher-class destroyers.). They also do not often represent final designs, which were developed in detail In combat, commanders often requisitioned additional guns with some ships mounting up to thirteen 20mm cannons. This saw 79 Gearing class destroyers given SQS-23, ASROC/DASH, and Mk. The last batch of 7WC-III program vessels, all of them Gearing class, were retired in the early 2000s.[17]. With this modification, the Oerlikon cannons were rearranged and their number was standardized at seven; four amidships and three in a heart-shaped mount on the fantail. [11] However, DASH proved unreliable in shipboard service, with over half of the USN's 746 drones lost at sea. // -->