USS Bronstein (FF-1037)
_underway_off_the_coast_of_Southern_California_(USA)_on_24_November_1986_(6449827).jpg) USS Bronstein (DE / FF-1037) |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | frigate |
| Keel laying | May 16, 1961 |
| Launch | March 31, 1962 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| period of service |
June 16, 1963 - |
| Whereabouts | sold |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
2,650 tons |
| length |
113.20 meters |
| width |
12.30 meters |
| Draft |
7.00 meters |
| crew |
199 |
| drive |
One steam turbine, 20,000 hp, one screw |
The frigate USS Bronstein (DE / FF-1037) was the lead ship of the Bronstein class . She served in the United States Navy from 1963 to 1990 , and was sold to Mexico in 1993, where she is still in active service. She was the second ship to be named after Lieutenant Ben Richard Bronstein, a Navy officer whose ship was sunk by a German submarine during World War II .
history
The keel was laid on May 16, 1961 at Avondale Shipyard in Westwego , Louisiana . The launch took place on March 31, 1962, on June 16, 1963 the Bronstein was put into service as a destroyer escort (DE) with the Navy.
She spent the first five years in the Pacific Fleet, based in San Diego . It operated mostly in the Eastern Pacific until 1965, and from 1966 also in the Western Pacific. In 1967 the Bronstein was moved to Long Beach , California , where it was overhauled for the first time. In the fall of 1972 she ran out again for missions, she operates together with the America and the Midway off the Vietnamese coast . In 1973 she received her tow sonar during a shipyard stay, after which she was assigned to the carrier combat group of the Kitty Hawk . After another mission in the West Pacific in 1975 and participation in the evacuation of Saigon , the Bronstein was overhauled again in 1976 and reclassified as a frigate (FF). Until the removal of the towing sonar in 1984, it continued to operate in the Western Pacific, then at the end of the 1980s mostly off the American coast as part of support missions for the US Coast Guard . On December 13, 1990, the day before her sister ship McCloy , she was decommissioned and assigned to the reserve fleet in Pearl Harbor . On November 12, 1993 it was sold to Mexico, where it is still in service with the Armada de México as ARM Hermenegildo Galeana (F202) .
