DDG-122 will be the second warship named to honor Basilone, following the Gearing-class destroyer USS Basilone (DD-824), which was commissioned in 1949 and served with the U.S. Navy until it was ...

The USS Orleck in Lake Charles, La. Is available. It’s a Gearing class destroyer. Though it is not the same class as the Adams, it is a similar size, meaning it will not overwhelm the skyline of ...

Guided-missile destroyer John Basilone (DDG-122) completed its Navy acceptance trails ahead of delivery to the service, shipbuilder General Dynamics Bath Iron Works. On May 23, Arleigh Burke-class ...

The new destroyer is the latest to be named for the late Marine. In 1949, the Navy commissioned the USS Basilone, a Gearing-class destroyer.

October 22, 2024: The US Navy has found its 9,700-ton Burke class destroyers to be a successful design, so successful that 117 have been built, are on order or planned. This many destroyers of one ...

Commissioned on Dec. 15, 1945, the Gearing-class destroyer is one of the five National Historic Landmark ships in retirement at Battleship Cove at the confluence of the Taunton River and Mount ...

The destroyer Orleck (DD-886) adds 5-inch gunfire support to an attack on a Vietcong stronghold near Vong Tau, a city at the mouth of the Saigon River in South Vietnam, March 1966. (Photographer's ...

The ship, expected to enter the fleet in 2024, will be the second named for Higbee; the first was a Gearing-Class destroyer in service for the Navy from 1945-1979.

The USS Orleck set sail for Jacksonville on Thursday afternoon. The historic Gearing-class destroyer should arrive on the First Coast in 10 to 12 days, depending on weather conditions.

Bath-built warship to be christened Saturday The Arleigh Burke-class John Basilone is the 39th guided-missile destroyer to be constructed at Bath Iron Works.