USS Davidson (FF-1045)
USS Davidson (FF-1045) |
|
Overview | |
---|---|
Type | frigate |
Shipyard | |
Order | January 3, 1962 |
Keel laying | September 30, 1963 |
Launch | 2nd October 1964 |
Namesake | Lyal A. Davidson |
1. Period of service | |
Commissioning | December 1, 1965 |
Decommissioning | December 8, 1988 |
home port | Naval Base Pearl Harbor |
Whereabouts | sold to Brazil |
2. Period of service | |
period of service | 1989-2002 |
Commissioning | July 25, 1989 |
Decommissioning | July 26, 2002 |
Whereabouts | sunk en route to scrapping |
Technical specifications | |
displacement |
3,400 ts |
length |
126.34 m |
width |
13.44 m |
Draft |
7.9 m |
crew |
16 officers, |
drive |
1 propeller, |
speed | |
Range | |
Armament |
2 × 5-inch guns, |
USS Davidson (FF-1045) was a frigate of the Garcia class of the United States Navy . It was named after Vice Admiral Lyal A. Davidson . The Davidson was commissioned on December 7, 1965 in Charleston . She was later relocated to the homeport of Pearl Harbor . Its area of operation was the western Pacific , where it was used in the Vietnam War . In 1975 she, originally designed as a destroyer escort, was reclassified as a frigate along with the other Garcia- class ships .
The decommissioning of the Davidson took place on December 8, 1988. It was sold to the Brazilian Navy in 1989 and put into service there on July 25, 1989 under the name Paraiba . The decommissioning took place on July 26, 2002.
The Davidson sank en route to India, where it was towed with the Sample to be scrapped.
Web links
- History of USS Davidson (FF-1045) in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)
- Homepage of former crew members
- Video of the wreck