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Perkins

Class	Gearing class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-877
Builder	Consolidated Steel, Orange
Launched	1944-12-07
Commissioned	1945-04-04
Fate	Afloat. Survived the war.
Armament (class)	The Sumner gun arrangement on a longer hull.

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Gearing-class destroyer, DD-877. This is not the earlier Perkins (DD-377).

The pictures on this page are the originals.