SPECIFIC LINKS

USS Gyatt Web Site

http://www.ussgyatt.org/ Link 1 - http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/712.htm Link 2 - http://members.cox.net/cpopina/whathapp.htm

PHOTOS

Photo 1 - Photo 1A - Photo 2 - Photo 3 - Photo 4 Photos 1 and 1A (original) from Ken Deshaies archive. Photos 2 and 3 from US Naval Institute Proceedings - March & April 1957 - Photo 4 from the December 1960 issue. Info - The USS GYATT (DD/DDG-712) Gearing Class - was classified DDG-1 on 1 December 1955. Reclassified DDG-712 in 1956 and back to DDG-1 on 23 May 1957 and finally to DD-712 on 1 Oct. 1962. She was the FIRST USN guided missile destroyer. Gyatt was stricken 22 October 1969 and was sunk as a target off Virginia on 11 June 1970.