USS Bagley (FF-1069)
_underway.jpg) USS Bagley (DE / FF-1069) |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | frigate |
| Keel laying | September 22, 1970 |
| Launch | April 24, 1971 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| period of service |
May 6, 1972 - |
| Whereabouts | scrapped |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
4,100 ts |
| length |
133.5 meters |
| width |
14.25 meters |
| Draft |
7.6 meters |
| crew |
17 officers, 228 sailors |
| drive |
1 propeller, 1 gear turbine, 2 boilers; 35,000 wave horsepower |
| speed |
27+ knots |
| Range |
4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots |
The USS Bagley (DE / FF-1069) was a frigate of the Knox-class frigate . She served from 1972 to 1991 in the Pacific Fleet of the US Navy and was the fourth ship , which according Ensign Worth Bagley (born April 6, 1874 † May 11, 1898), the only naval officer who during the American Spanish War fell , was named.
technology
More about the technology can be found in the article on the class under Knox class
Hull and drive
The hull of the Bagley was 133.5 meters long and 14.25 meters wide. The maximum draft was 7.6 meters, the displacement in the loaded state was 4,100 ts . It was driven by a geared turbine, the output was 35,000 hp. The steam for the drive was generated in two boilers. The maximum speed was officially 27 knots , at 20 knots the range was 4,500 nautical miles.
Armament and Electronics
The main armament of the frigate, in addition to its 5-inch Mk. 42 gun, was the ASROC starter in front of the bridge. Furthermore, it had U-torpedo tubes in the superstructure. On the stern there was a landing deck, first for submarine drones and later for an SH-2 Seasprite helicopter . On the aft deck one was shortly after the commissioning . Mk 25 - Sea Sparrow launcher of the mid-1980s by an installed Mk 15th Phalanx - Close-Weapon-system- has been replaced.
From the outset, the SQS-26 - Bugsonar equipped, she received the same time as their missiles starter also SQS-35 - towed array sonar , was housed in the rear. For aerial reconnaissance was on the Mack a PLC 40 - Radar , as a surface search radar was a PLC 10 of Raytheon used. The gun was fired by a Mk. 68 radar, the ASROC launcher by a Mk. 114 , and the Sea Sparrows was also equipped with a Mk. 115 fire control radar.
history
Construction and commissioning
The Bagley's keel was laid on October 5, 1970 at Lockheed Shipbuilding & Construction Co. in Seattle , Washington . After the ship was christened on April 17, 1971 by Mrs. Marie Louise H. Bagley, widow of Ensign Worth Bagley's brother, it was launched and towed to the equipment piers at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard . After the equipment of the ship was completed, the ship was under Comdr. William J. Bredbeck put into service on May 6, 1972 as a destroyer escort with the registration number DE-1069. The first sea trials took place off the coast of Washington and British Columbia , then moved to San Diego , her new home port, where the ship arrived on July 25th.
period of service
1970s
After a month and a half of training off the California coast, the Bagley set out on September 16, 1972 on her maiden voyage, which took her to Pearl Harbor and into Hawaiian waters, where she stayed from September 22 to October 3. The ship then returned to San Diego, where she participated in further exercises. On November 15, she went into dock for the first overhaul at Long Beach Naval Shipyard .
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The first mission after a six-month overhaul led over Pearl Harbor, Yokosuka and Subic Bay into the Gulf of Tonkin, where the frigate began patrols in mid-October 1973. On October 29, she was ordered to the Indian Ocean to show presence in the carrier combat group of the USS Hancock and to prevent Soviet intervention in the end of the Yom Kippur War . This mission lasted until mid-December, then the Bagley returned to Subic Bay, where a longer overtaking and recreational stay followed. In early 1974 she took part in several exercises with the US 7th Fleet and visited some port cities in the west Pacific, including Hong Kong and Busan . She left Yokosuka on February 20 and returned to San Diego via Midway and Pearl Harbor.
Until mid-1975, the ship operated in California waters and took part in several exercises and qualifications, on June 30, 1975, the Bagley was reclassified as part of the general reclassification from escort destroyer (DE) to frigate (FF). In July, she prepared for her next mission in the Western Pacific, which began on August 1st. The ship left San Diego and steamed over Pearl Harbor and Guam to Subic Bay, where it arrived on September 13th. It spent the next five months with the 7th Fleet in the Pacific, participating in various operations and visiting several ports. The frigate left the Philippines in mid-February 1976 and returned to its home port on April 1. The Bagley stayed off the coast of California until February of the next year , when she ran the " RIMPAC- 77" exercise to Hawaii, where she operated with ships from the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Two days after her return to San Diego, the frigate went to dry dock in Long Beach from March 14 to April 2 for a hull overhaul. On April 12, she left her home port for the western Pacific, where she took part in exercises with the US fleet and made several port visits. The stay ended on November 6th when the ship left Yokosuka. After arriving in California on November 21st, she stayed in port for the remainder of the year.
1980s
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In 1978, after a few exercises at the beginning of the year , the Bagley went to Long Beach for a general overhaul on February 14th. The ship was used for exercises and tests off the coast until the end of February 1980, after which it left the US coast to take part in the "RIMPAC 1980" exercise off Hawaii. After completing it, it continued its journey towards the Philippines, where it took part in fire exercises with live ammunition off Subic Bay. At the end of April, the frigate left the Philippines as part of the Constellation Combat Group for the Indian Ocean, where it showed American presence during the hostage-taking of Tehran and the smoldering conflict between Iran and Iraq . The task force remained in the area until July 19, when the ships returned to the Pacific. The frigate returned to Subic Bay via Singapore and Pattaya , where it arrived on August 20. On the way, she had saved 39 Vietnamese refugees off the Thai coast. In mid-September she went on a short “Good Will” trip to Busan, which lasted until September 23rd. The warship left the Philippines in early October and returned to the United States, where she stayed in her home port for the rest of the year.
She spent the first ten months of 1981 off the California coast, then the frigate set out again via Pearl Harbor and Subic Bay towards the Indian Ocean, where it again rescued Vietnamese refugees from distress. After stopping the boat people in the port of Singapore continued Bagley continued their journey on December 12 and put the end of December in Al Masirah in Oman on. The ship operated in Arab waters until the end of January 1982, after which she visited Mombasa , Kenya . The return to Subic Bay then went through Geraldton , Diego Garcia and Penang . Between mid-April and early May, the ship then took part in porter group exercises off Guam with the Constellation , Midway and the Ranger . After completing the exercise, the Bagley returned to California via Hawaii, where it stayed for the remainder of 1982 and the first five months of 1983.
On June 9, 1983, the frigate left the US coast as part of the "Surface Action Group" of the USS New Jersey together with the destroyer Callaghan and the frigates John A. Moore and Meyerkord and steamed again towards the Philippines via Hawaii. Until their return to San Diego on December 13, the Bagley was part of the Midway combat group and participated in extensive exercises in the region.
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In February 1984 the warship took part in the "READIEX 84-2" exercise and visited Central America, followed by a visit to the west coast of Canada at the end of March , where it took part in the testing of a new anti-submarine torpedo . After further port visits in Vancouver and San Francisco , she returned to her home port, where she went to dock for overhaul for eight months on May 11th.
After the work was completed on January 19, 1985, the Bagley spent the next four months offshore with exercises and tests. In May and June she took part in the "EASTPAC 85-5" exercise, after which she visited Portland , Concord and San Francisco, and on June 22nd she returned to her home port. With the exception of two short visits to San Francisco and Esquimalt , she stayed in the coastal region off Southern California for the rest of the year. On January 15, 1986, the frigate was assigned to the Enterprise's combat group , with which it ran over Pearl Harbor and Subic Bay in the direction of the Indian Ocean. After stopping over in Karachi , Oman and Diego Garcia, the carrier combat group was ordered through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean on April 12 , where it took up position off the Libyan coast. The frigate spent the next two months in the Mediterranean, on June 28th it left Catania , crossed the Suez Canal again and returned via Subic Bay and Hawaii to San Diego, where it arrived on August 11th. The ship spent the remainder of the year in US coastal waters.
The Bagley spent the whole of 1987 in home waters; in mid-May she went to dock for seven weeks for overhaul. On January 4, 1988, she ran again in the combat group of the Enterprise via Hawaii in the direction of the Philippines, where the group arrived on February 1. Five days later, the frigate and the carrier left port for the Arabian Sea , where it showed American presence in the face of Iranian provocations during the First Gulf War . After the Samuel B. Roberts ran into an Iranian mine on April 14th, the Bagley was assigned to Operation Praying Mantis , together with the cruiser Wainwright and the guided missile frigate Simpson attacked the Iranian oil platform Sirri and destroyed it. The group was then attacked by an Iranian missile speedboat , but the attack was repulsed and the attacker sunk. After the operation was completed, the frigate was involved in the search for the pilots of a missing AH-1 Cobra . She stayed in Arabian waters until mid-May and escorted several oil tankers and cargo ships through the marine region. Together with the reasoner , the Bagley set out east on May 15, took part in some exercises off the Indonesian and Malaysian coasts and returned via Busan and Seattle to San Diego, where it arrived on July 2. She stayed off the coast until February 1989 and undertook several exercises and test drives, after which she went to dry dock for overhaul by April 4. On September 18, she set out again with an aircraft carrier combat group in the direction of the Middle East. At the end of September the Bagley took part in the "PACEX 89" exercise off the Aleutian Islands , together with ships from the Carl Vinson and the Constellation . Another naval exercise, "ANNUALEX 89" off the Japanese coast, followed in October 1989, in which the Carl Vinson and the battleships New Jersey and Missouri took part.
Nineties
On October 31, 1989 the combat group entered the port of Hong Kong, the visit lasted until November 6, then the ships left the crown colony for the Philippines, where they stayed for four weeks. On December 10th, Bagley left Subic Bay and ran via Pattaya, Singapore and Diego Garcia into the Arabian Sea, where it strengthened the American units from mid-January 1990. The stay lasted until February 22nd, then she steamed back to her home port on the California coast with several stopovers, where she arrived on March 16. From the end of April to February 1991 she operated off the North American west coast, after which she visited some Central American countries. Most of the last months of her service, she stayed in the port, on July 8th the boiler fire was finally extinguished.
Decommissioning
The Bagley was decommissioned on November 26, 1991, she remained in the Naval Vessel Register until 1995. After the cancellation, the ship was sold to International Shipbreaking Ltd, Brownsville , Texas , for scrapping on September 29, 1999 , and was completely demolished by September 19, 2000.
Web links
- History of Bagley IV (DE-1069) in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)
- Photos of Bagley at navsource.org (Engl.)