USS Albert David (FF-1050)
_underway_off_San_Diego,_in_1977_(6391999).jpg) USS Albert David , 1977 |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | frigate |
| Shipyard |
Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company , Seattle , Washington |
| Keel laying | April 29, 1964 |
| Launch | December 19, 1964 |
| Namesake | Albert Leroy David |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | 19th October 1968 |
| Decommissioning | September 28, 1988 |
| home port | Naval Base Pearl Harbor |
| Whereabouts | sold to Brazil on January 24, 2001 |
| 2. Period of service |
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| period of service | 1989-2004 |
| Commissioning | September 18, 1989 |
| Decommissioning | November 12, 2008 |
| 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 Albert David (FF-1050) was a Garcia-class frigate of the United States Navy . It was named after Lieutenant Albert Leroy David , a Medal of Honor holder .
Construction and commissioning
The keel laying of the Albert David took place on April 28, 1964 in Seattle , Washington State . The contractor was the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company . The launch took place on December 19, 1964. Lynda Mae David, Albert David's widow , named the ship. The Albert David was then put into service on October 19, 1968 under the command of Sea Captain Roy S. Reynolds at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard .
The USS Albert David was equipped from October 1968 in the port of Bremerton , Washington , and went on test drives from there, which lasted until 1969. Her first trip took her to Hawaii in March 1969 . On May 1, 1969, the USS Albert David Long Beach , California, was assigned as a new base, where it entered on May 10.
Service as escort destroyer
Long Beach from the USS got Albert David their first posting in the Pacific Ocean to look out for stopovers in the October 8, 1969 Pearl Harbor and Midway Island on October 31 in Yokosuka ( Japan pulled in).
After a brief patrol in the Taiwan Strait and a visit to Subic Bay in the Philippines , she was ordered to Danang , South Vietnam on November 24th to provide artillery support ( Naval gunfire support ) to landing forces. On December 10, she moved with a stopover in Bangkok in the Gulf of Tonkin , where they since December 30, along with the USS Coral Sea for five weeks for the aircraft carriers of Task Force 77 escort service ( plane guard duty ) was doing. After several short missions, the USS Albert David returned to Danang on February 27, where it was again used as artillery support. In mid-March she was reassigned to Task Force 77 .
On March 21, the Albert David left Subic Bay to return to Long Beach , where it entered on April 9. Several months of training followed before significant overhaul work began at Long Beach Naval Shipyard in November 1970 , which lasted eight months. After further tests and training drives, she began her service with the 1st fleet in September 1971.
The second relocation to the Far East took place on November 12, 1971. The USS Albert David remained there as artillery support in the Gulf of Siam and off the coast of Vietnam, only interrupted in January 1972 to pick up fuel , provisions and ammunition in Subic Bay .
On February 24, 1972, she received an order to accompany the aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CVA-64) in the Gulf of Tonkin on the crossing to Hong Kong , where she arrived on March 14. She then went to the Sea of Japan and took part in an exercise to combat enemy submarines for a few days . After a stay in the port of Yokosuka , she returned to Vietnamese waters, where she worked at the DMZ as artillery support.
She then accompanied the USS Long Beach and then the USS Denver to warn civilian ships of mines .
From May 17, she accompanied the USS Constellation to Subic Bay, from where she continued to Singapore . After a brief hiatus, she met again with the Constellation to walk towards the United States with a stop in Yokosuka . The association split on June 30, and the following morning she entered Long Beach.
After a month in port, she escorted the USS Ranger south of California. From August 26th she took part in the maneuver " RIMPAC -72" together with ships of the Navy from Australia , Canada and New Zealand . Albert David returned to Long Beach on September 19, stayed in port again for three weeks and then carried out patrols off the coast of California until January 1973.
The third transfer to the Far East took place on January 5, 1973. She accompanied the USS Constellation to Asia and then went with her to the Gulf of Tonkin as part of Task Force 77 . This was the last voyage in the Gulf of Tonkin as the United States later withdrew from the Vietnam War . The Albert David was then relocated to the Philippines. On March 6, the Albert David left the port of Iloilo on Panay Island to return to Vietnamese waters. As part of Operation End Sweep , it removed minefields off the coast of northern Vietnam .
The ship set out for Keelung on the island of Taiwan on June 9 ; The destination was Yokosuka in Japan, where she arrived on June 17th. On June 19, she continued her journey to the USA, where she arrived on July 3 after visiting the Midway Islands and Pearl Harbor. On August 20, she was assigned a new base in San Diego .
After lengthy maintenance work at Todd Pacific Shipyards in the San Pedro district of Los Angeles , she returned to Long Beach on November 21st and shortly afterwards moved to San Diego, where she arrived on December 1st. Together with the ships USS Leonard F. Mason and USS Waddell , she left the San Diego base on April 23, 1974 for the western Pacific. On May 14th of the year the ships arrived in Yokosuka.
From May 25, she was used in the 7th Fleet in support of the USS Midway . From October 22, 1974, the Albert David was withdrawn from the Far East to take part in various exercises, including in April 1975 "RIMPAC 1-75", together with the navies from Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Reclassification to frigate
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On June 30, 1975, the Albert David was reclassified as a frigate and received the registration FF-1050 .
In September she went back to Hawaii to do some exercises for four weeks and returned to San Diego in early November. Until spring 1976 she was involved in missions in the region. In April 1976, she underwent extensive maintenance at Long Beach Naval Shipyard that spanned eleven months before returning to San Diego. After further months of training off the coast and participating in the RIMPAC 1-78 off Hawaii, she was assigned to Subic Bay in April 1978, still lying off Hawaii , where she arrived on May 16. In the following five months the Albert David was involved in maneuvers of the 7th Fleet , including the exercise "Sharkhunt XXVII" with the participation of the Taiwanese Navy . During this time she called at ports in Japan , South Korea and Taiwan . After a visit to Guam in mid-October, the Albert David returned to San Diego on October 29 and stayed there for the remainder of the year.
After eleven months of operations, test drives and maintenance, the Albert David left San Diego on November 13, 1979 for the island of Luzon . After a short stop in Pearl Harbor , she moored in Subic Bay on December 9th.
In mid-February 1980 she set off for Singapore with the ships USS Long Beach , USS Worden and USS Bronstein . Due to a major engine failure, however , the Albert David had to be towed back to Subic Bay first from Long Beach and later from the high-chair tug USNS Ute , where it remained until the end of the month. After the repairs were completed , a two-week exercise followed with a visit to Buckner Bay on the island of Okinawa . After stops in Pusan , Sasebo , Guam , Kwajalein and Pearl Harbor, she entered the home port of San Diego on May 2, 1980. After several missions near San Diego, the Albert David underwent a major overhaul in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard by September 1981. This was followed by missions from San Diego until May 1982.
On May 29, 1982 she set out again in the direction of Subic Bay, but was relocated to Sasebo after just three weeks and returned to Subic Bay on August 17. Already on August 21, she was transferred to the Arabian Sea together with the USS John Young and the USS San Jose to perform surveillance tasks there. On October 19, she began her journey home to San Diego, where she remained without further assignments until the end of the year.
In January 1983 she began her service off the California coast before setting out again for Subic Bay on October 4th. Once there, the Albert David later took part in sea maneuvers with the Navy from Malaysia , South Korea and Singapore . The exercises were interrupted by visits to Lumut , Singapore , Jinhae, and Hong Kong. She returned to Manila on December 28th .
In April 1984, Albert David ended their stationing in the Western Pacific and returned to San Diego via Pearl Harbor on April 30th. Until November she was used again off the California coast. Maintenance work followed in the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, which lasted until January 1985.
On January 5, 1985, she was again ordered off the California coast and remained in this area of operation, interrupted by brief visits to Canada, until September 1986. On September 29, 1986, the Albert David was transferred to the National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. in for maintenance Detached to San Diego, where she was decommissioned on September 28, 1988.
Brazilian Navy
The USS Albert David was loaned to the Brazilian Navy on September 18, 1989 and removed from the Naval Vessel Register on January 24, 2001 , before being sold for good to Brazil. It served there as a destroyer under the name Pará (D 27) until November 12, 2008, before it was also decommissioned in Brazil. It is now assigned to the reserve.
Web links
- History of Albert David in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)
- USS Albert David in the Naval Vessel Register
- "Playing Chicken of the Sea" TIME Magazine , March 28, 1977 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vamos salvar o Pará? Retrieved July 23, 2014 .
