USS Brumby (FF-1044)

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USS Brumby (FF-1044)
USS Brumby (FF-1044)
Overview
Type frigate
Shipyard

Avondale Shipyards , New Orleans , Louisiana

Keel laying August 1, 1963
Launch June 6, 1964
Namesake Frank H. Brumby
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning August 5, 1965
Decommissioning March 31, 1989
Whereabouts released for scrapping
2. Period of service flag
period of service 1989-1994
Commissioning March 31, 1989
Decommissioning November 14, 1994
Whereabouts Returned to the US Navy
Technical specifications
displacement

3,400  ts

length

126.34 m

width

13.44 m

Draft

7.9 m

crew

16 officers,
231 sailors

drive

1 propeller,
1 Westinghouse geared turbine,
2 Foster wheeler 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 Brumby (FF-1044) was a frigate of the Garcia class of the United States Navy . It was named after Admiral Frank H. Brumby .

The Brumby in 1963 as escort destroyers designed and ran on July 6, 1964 by Stack . It was put into service over a year later, on August 5, 1965. Its area of ​​operation was in the Atlantic Ocean during the Vietnam War .

She was decommissioned on March 31, 1989 and leased to the Pakistani Navy on the same day . Because Pakistan refused to halt its nuclear weapons production program , the United States terminated the lease in 1994. The ship was handed over to the US Navy and struck off the register on September 9. The United States Maritime Administration then sold them for scrapping .

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