USS Davidson (FF-1045)

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USS Davidson (FF-1045)
USS Davidson (FF-1045)
Overview
Type frigate
Shipyard

Avondale Shipyards

Order January 3, 1962
Keel laying September 30, 1963
Launch 2nd October 1964
Namesake Lyal A. Davidson
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning December 1, 1965
Decommissioning December 8, 1988
home port Naval Base Pearl Harbor
Whereabouts sold to Brazil
2. Period of service flag
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,
245 sailors

drive

1 propeller,
1 gear turbine,
2 boilers;
35,000  wave horsepower

speed

27  kn (50  km / h )

Range

4,000  nm (7,408  km ) at 20 kn

Armament

2 × 5-inch guns,
1 × ASROC Mk16 launcher,
6 × Mark-32 torpedoes,
6 × Mark 46 torpedoes,
2 × Mark-37 torpedoes

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

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