US Navy's Gearing-class destroyer “Vesole” off Karachi, Pakistan, in July 1970
Builder: Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas
Displacements: 2,425 standard, 3,500 full load
Length overall: 119.02 m
Draft: 5.8 m
Engines: 2 geared turbines, 60,000 s.h.p.; twin-screw
Speed: 34 knots
Launched 29th December 1944
Commissioned 23rd April 1945
Converted to radar picket destroyed after World War 2, reclassified c.1950
Underwent extensive modernisation at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1964
Decommissioned 1st December 1976
Sunk as a target off Puerto Rico 14th April 1983