Editing Gearing-class destroyer (section)

== Procurement and construction ==
31 vessels were authorized on 9 July 1942:
* DD-710 to DD-721 awarded to Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny.
* DD-742 to DD-743 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
* DD-763 to DD-769 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco.
* DD-782 to DD-791 awarded to Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle.

4 vessels were authorized on 13 May 1942:
* DD-805 to DD-808 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.

3 vessels were authorized on 27 March 1943 under the [[Vinson–Trammell Act]]:
* DD-809 to DD-811 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. (later cancelled)

114 vessels were authorized on 19 July 1943 under the 70% Expansion Act:
* DD-812 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. (later cancelled)
* DD-813 to DD-814 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island. (later cancelled)
* DD-815 to DD-825 awarded to Consolidated Steel, Orange. (815 and 816 later cancelled)
* DD-826 to DD-849 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
* DD-850 to DD-853 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, [[Fore River Shipyard]], Quincy.
* DD-854 to DD-856 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island. (later cancelled)
* DD-858 to DD-861 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, San Pedro.
* DD-862 to DD-872 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island.
* DD-873 to DD-890 awarded to Consolidated Steel, Orange.
* DD-891 to DD-893 awarded to Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny.  (later cancelled)
* DD-894 to DD-895 awarded to Consolidated Steel, Orange.  (later cancelled)
* DD-896 to DD-904 awarded to Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.  (later cancelled)
* DD-905 to DD-908 awarded to Boston Navy Yard. (later cancelled)
* DD-909 to DD-916 awarded to Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island.  (later cancelled)
* DD-917 to DD-924 awarded to Consolidated Steel, Orange. (later cancelled)
* DD-925 to DD-926 awarded to Charleston Navy Yard.  (later cancelled)

(Of the missing numbers in this sequence - 722 to 741, 744 to 762, 770 to 781, and 857 were allocated to orders for {{sclass|Allen M. Sumner|destroyer|1}}s; 792 to 804 were awarded to orders for {{sclass|Fletcher|destroyer|1}}s.)