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Right or wrong we called everything that had single 5"/38's such as the Fletcher Class 2100's.

The next class of ships all mounted twin 5"/38's and we called all of them 2200's or 2250's your choice.

That being said even in my day the ships were hard to tell apart and the several DD's that I served on were all Gearings which we called 2250's.

The Fletchers were 2100's and had a top speed of about 36 to 38 Kts but their fuel capacity was deemed a little short for work in the pacific.

The next class was the Allen M Sumners class which were built around the Fletcher machinery but had 2 rudders where Fletcher had one. The hull of the Fletcher and the Sumner was the same size.

The Sumner weighed 150 tons more than the Fletcher and the top speed was reduced from the Fletcher by about 3 kts and did not do as well as the Fletcher with carriers and had a shorter range than the Fletcher. The Sumner was a 2200 class DD and she was bow heavy.

The Gearing Class was an Allen M Sumners Class with about 14 more feet for more fuel oil and speed of about 32 to 34 Kts.

The Gearing Class was a 2250 ton DD and the added 14 feet made the Gearing and Sumners almost identical and you really had to go by hull numbers to tell them apart. The 14 ft allowed the Gearing to carry some 160 tons more of fuel oil and did not have the bow heavy syndrome that the Sumners had because of some relocated machinery. (What I don't know.)

No Gearing saw WWII action I don't think as the first was launched in 1945 I believe?

And no I don't know whay the math is 2100 for the Fletcher and 150 tons more made the Sumner a 2200 and another 160 tons made the Gearing a 2250?

I think somewhere in here we started calling both ships a 2250 class and the 2200 was lost.

Again right or wrong I have no clue and until Tony D brought it up I had never thought about it.