USS Bradley (FF-1041)
USS Bradley (FF-1041) |
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Overview | |
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Type | frigate |
Shipyard |
Defoe Shipbuilding Company , Bay City, Michigan |
Keel laying | 17th January 1963 |
Launch | March 26, 1964 |
Namesake | Willis W. Bradley |
1. Period of service | |
Commissioning | May 15, 1965 |
Decommissioning | September 30, 1988 |
home port | Naval Base San Diego |
Whereabouts | sold to Brazil |
2. Period of service | |
period of service | 1989-2004 |
Commissioning | September 1989 |
Decommissioning | March 11, 2004 |
Whereabouts | in reserve |
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, |
The USS Bradley (FF-1041) was the second frigate of the Garcia class of the United States Navy . It was named after Willis W. Bradley , California Representative in the US House of Representatives and Medal of Honor holder . It was later sold to the Brazilian Navy and is now called Pernambuco .
history
The keel laying of Bradley was on January 17, 1963 in San Francisco , which launched on March 26, 1964.. It entered service on May 15, 1965.
Her first mission took the Bradley between July and December 1966 to the coast of South Vietnam , where she provided fire support, and in the Gulf of Tonkin , where she was escort for an aircraft carrier . In February 1967, the prototype of the Sea Sparrow was installed to test the system from May of that year, after the tests were completed, the system was dismantled again in September.
The Bradley's second deployment began in December 1967, but was ordered into the Sea of Japan in response to an incident involving the USS Pueblo . In March 1968, she then resumed service as fire support off the South Vietnamese coast. After a last deployment in July of that year, in which she fired 3,247 rounds from her 5-inch cannon, she returned to her base in San Diego .
Significant maintenance work took place between October 1968 and May 1969; a new SQS-26 sonar was installed and both boilers were overhauled.
The third deployment includes the surveillance of the Okean maneuver of the Soviet Navy in April 1970, followed by further escorts for an aircraft carrier. Overall, the Bradley spent the next five years in Southeast Asia, which were only interrupted by maintenance work in 1971 and 1972.
From June 1975, the Bradley was overhauled for a year, with the landing platform for the helicopter being expanded. In the same year she was reclassified as a frigate by the destroyer escort (DE) . After a few test drives in mid-1976, it was relocated to the Indian Ocean as a new operational area, where it again completed three missions until mid-1979. Another one-year overhaul followed. This was followed by missions on the coast of Korea and Malaysia , before she was again in the dock for a year from mid-1983 for maintenance work. After a further deployment in the western and northern Pacific between 1986 and June 1988, it was decommissioned on September 30, 1988.
Brazilian Navy
In September 1989 the Bradley was leased to the Brazilian Navy , renamed Pernambuco (D 30) and classified as a destroyer . In January 2001 it was removed from the US Navy shipping register and finally sold to Brazil. The Pernambuco took part in several military maneuvers between 2001 and spring 2003. The decommissioning took place on March 11, 2004; however, it remains in the reserve.
Web links
- History of the USS Bradley (FF-1041) in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)
- The USS Bradley Association
- Bradley data on Destroyers Online