This 30 September 1941 plan, for a 2135-ton (standard displacement) ship, These ships, along with Fletcher-class destroyers and Allen M. Sumner-class destroyers also acquired then, were upgraded under the WuChin (Chinese: ) I, II, and III programs and known throughout the ROCN as the Yang-class (Chinese: ) destroyers as they were assigned names that all end with the word "Yang". The Gearing design was a minor modification of the immediately preceding Allen M. Sumner class. Warships of World War II", Ian Allan Ltd., London:1965. First Platform The BuShips - December 12, 1950, 1951 BuShips Grebe Missile With the outbreak of the Korean War many were returned to active duty. Thanks in part to the 12-month post-commissioning delay in converting these early Gearings, they did not begin arriving in the war zone until late June, joining fast carrier task forces only in time for screening and plane-guard duty during the final air raids of the war. // -->