This collection contains photos of selected flush-deck destroyers and all 444 destroyers and 12 destroyer-minelayers commissioned between 1930 and the end of World War II, plus additional Allen M. Sumner- and

A voyage through the Solomon Islands to Rabaul: Papua New Guinea — Port Moresby to Milne Bay. Guadalcanal — including Purvis Bay and Tulagi. New Georgia — including Viru Harbor, Blanche Channel, Rendova and Ferguson Passage. Kolombangara — including Blackett Strait, Vila-Stanmore Plantation, Kula Gulf, Hathorn Sound, Bairoko Harbor, Enogai Inlet, Vella Gulf, Vella Lavella, Gizo, Gizo Strait and Wilson Strait. Bougainville — including Mt. Bagana, Empress Augusta Bay, Cape Torokina, Mt. Balbi, Buka Passage and Buka. Rabaul — including St. George’s Channel, volcanos and Simpson Harbor. Coming in late April 2007: a voyage through the Philippines.

Gearing-class ships completed after the war as follows:
• Flush-deck — selected ships of the Caldwell, Wickes and Clemson classes and conversions, including APDs (the “Green Dragon” destroyer-transports).
• 1500-ton “Goldplater” Farragut, Mahan, Gridley, Bagley and Benham classes—all 48 ships.
• 1850-ton destroyer leaders: Porter and Somers classes—all 13 ships.
• 1570-ton Sims class—all 12 ships.
• 1620- and 1630-ton Benson and Gleaves classes, including the Livermore and Bristol classes—all 96 ships.
• 2100-ton Fletcher class with sections including high-bridge, low-bridge, variations, in color, in detail, closeups, on location, at sea, in action, damage, sinking, in history, art—all 175 ships.
• 2200-ton Allen M. Sumner class—the 67 wartime ships, including 12 destroyer-minelayers of the Robert H. Smith class, plus the three post-war ships.
• 2250-ton Gearing class—the 45 wartime ships plus 52 of 53 post-war ships and two ships never completed.

The collection also contains representative photos of the cold war classes including color coverage as follows:
• Farragut (aka Coontz) class — all 10 ships.
• Leahy class — all 9 ships.
• Belknap class — all 9 ships.
• Bainbridge and Truxtun; Virginia and California classes — the 6 ships designated as nuclear guided missile frigates until 1975.
• Spruance class — all 31 ships.
• Arleigh Burke class — 50 ships.

Other images are linked from thumbnail photos within text or on separate image or photo pages as follows:
• Squadron-specific collections for Destroyer Squadrons 2 (Sims class), 7 (the first Benson- and Gleaves-class destroyers, operating in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters), 12 (Benson- and Gleaves-classes and replacements, operating in the Pacific), 21 and 23 (Fletcher-class, operating in the Pacific beginning during the Solomon Islands campaigns, 29 (Asiatic Fleet flush-deckers), 30 (Atlantic Fleet flush-deckers), and 56 (Fletcher-class ships joining the Pacific war in 1944).
• Ship-specific collections for Morris (DD 417), Jenkins (DD 447), La Vallette (DD 448), Nicholas (DD 449), Gwin (DD 433), Grayson (DD 435), Monssen (DD 436), O’Bannon (DD 450), Woodworth (DD 460), Strong (DD 467), Taylor (DD 468), De Haven (DD 469), Bennett (DD 473), Aaron Ward (DD 483), Buchanan (DD 484), Lansdowne (DD 486), Lardner (DD 487), Farenholt (DD 491), Converse (DD 509) and Newcomb (DD 586). The Nicholas collection alone includes more than 700 photos, deck logs and other documents organized as images, first person accounts, World War II cruise book and models.