Destroyer Photo Index DD-671 USS GATLING (original) (raw)

USS GATLING (DD-671)

CLASS - FLETCHER As Built.
Displacement 2924 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 376' 5"(oa) x 39' 7" x 13' 9" (Max)
Armament 5 x 5"/38AA, 10 x 40mm, 7 x 20mm AA, 10 x 21" tt.(2x5).
Machinery, 60,000 SHP; General Electric Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 38 Knots, Range 6500 NM@ 15 Knots, Crew 273.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny NJ. March 3 1943.
Launched June 20 1943 and commissioned August 19 1943.
Decommissioned July 16 1946 and recommissioned June 4 1951.
Decommissioned May 2 1960.
Stricken December 1 1974.
Fate Sold February 22 1977 to Union Minerals & Alloys, New York and broken up for scrap.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
47k	Richard Jordan Gatling, born in Hartford County, N.C., 12 September 1818, won fame as the inventor of machines to plant cotton, rice, and wheat; and hemp-breaker; a steam plow; and a screw propeller for steamboats. During the Civil War he designed a multibarrelled machine gun. He died in New York City 25 February 1903. Digital ID: cwpbh 03735, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.	Bill Gonyo
74k	Artist's conception of the Gatling by the renowned graphic illustrator John Barrett with the text written by naval author and historian Robert F. Sumrall. Their company Navy Yard Associates offers prints of most destroyers, destroyer escorts, submarines and aircraft carriers in various configurations during the ship's lifetime. The prints can be customized with ship's patches, your photograph, your bio, etc. If you decide to purchase artwork from them please indicate that you heard about their work from NavSource.	Navy Yard Associates
120k	Undated, location unknown.	Max Selby
66k	Souvenir button of the launching of the USS Dortch (DD-670) and USS Gatling (DD-671) on June 20 1943. Courtesy of www.timepassagesnostalgia.com.	Tom Kerman
208k	Launching of the USS Dortch (DD-670) and USS Gatling (DD-671) on June 20 1943 at Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny, NJ. From the collection of John Serge Kurilla Sr. who was a shipbuilding engineer.	Mark Kurilla
218k	USS Gatling (DD-671) underway circa 1943. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo #: NH 107194.	Robert Hurst
112k	USS Birmingham (CL-62), at left, and USS Gatling (DD-671) pull away from USS Princeton (CVL-23) following the big explosion that destroyed the carrier's stern at about 1523 hrs. on 24 October 1944. This blast killed over two hundred men aboard Birmingham, which was alongside Princeton fighting fires. Note the light smoke over Birmingham's midships and stern areas. Princeton's stern, and a good deal of her after superstructure, has been blown off. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (# 80-G-270553).	NHC
91k	Stern view of USS Gatling (DD 671) off Mare Island on 15 June 1945.	Darryl Baker
89k	Bow on view of USS Gatling (DD 671) departing Mare Island on 15 June 1945.	Darryl Baker
140k	View of USS Gatling (DD 671) departing Mare Island on 15 June 1945.	Darryl Baker
146k	View of USS Gatling (DD 671) departing Mare Island on 15 June 1945.	Darryl Baker
131k	Forward plan view of USS Gatling (DD 671) in dry dock #3 at Mare Island on 17 June 1945.	Darryl Baker
158k	Aft plan view of USS Gatling (DD 671) in dry dock #3 at Mare Island on 17 June 1945. She was in overhaul at the yard from 19 April to 17 June 1945. Gatling was back in dry dock to repair a block main injection after her initial bay trials.	Darryl Baker
107k	Staten Island, NY circa 1946 with USS Gatling (DD-671) and USS Clarence K. Bronson (DD-668).	George Sann
94k	Circa 1950's, location unknown.	David Buell
156k	Circa 1950's, location unknown.	Dave Wright
102k	Taken from USS Lake Champlain (CVA-39) in the summer of 1953, during her Korean deployment.	A. William Beam
123k	July 1953, location unknown.	Wolfgang Hechler
67k	Lisbon, Portugal September 1954	Larry Bonn
235k	USS Dashiell (DD-659) and USS Gatling (DD-671) pass through the Panama Canal, circa 1957. U.S. Navy All Hands magazine, April 1957.	Robert Hurst
99k	In the Mediterranean in 1959.	Robert Hurst
197k	USS Gatling (DD-671), USS Dashiell (DD-659) and USS Cotten (DD-669) in late 1970 at Philadelphia Navy Yard, NPC 1145643.	Ed Zajkowski
96k	Philadelphia Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility 30 July 1974, (L-R) USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692), USS Caperton (DD-650), Gatling (DD-671), USS Miller (DD-535), USS Hazelwood (DD-531) and USS Cassin Young (DD-793).