USS Capodanno (FF-1093)

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USS Capodanno (DE / FF-1093)
USS Capodanno (DE / FF-1093)
Overview
Type frigate
Keel laying October 12, 1971
Launch October 21, 1972
1. Period of service flag
period of service

November 17, 1973 -
July 30, 1993

Whereabouts sold
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 Capodanno (DE / FF-1093) was a Knox-class frigate . She served in the United States Navy from 1973 to 1993 . The ship was named after Navy Chaplain Vincent Robert Capodanno (born February 13, 1929 in Richmond County , New York , † September 4, 1967 in Vietnam), who was fatally wounded by a sniper in 1967 and was the second military chaplain in US military history posthumously with was awarded the Medal of Honor .

history

The Capodanno was laid down on October 12, 1971 at Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans , Louisiana . The launch took place on October 21, 1972, the commissioning with the Navy on November 17, 1973.

The frigate was placed under the Atlantic fleet. Her first missions were in the Mediterranean , in 1976 in the Middle East and in 1977 off the coast of South America. There she took part in the UNITAS exercise for the first time . After five years of service, the Capodanno went into dock for the first time in 1978 at Bath Iron Works in Bath , Maine for overhaul.

In 1979, after the work was completed, the second mission in the Mediterranean followed, in the summer of 1980 the frigate took part in the "Teamwork 80" NATO exercise, and in 1981 the second UNITAS maneuver off South America followed. In November 1982 the third Mediterranean mission began, the Capodanno was part of the multinational peacekeeping force off Lebanon . After returning from this mission, it was fundamentally overhauled and modernized for the second time in Bath in 1983. After completing its work, the ship spent the remainder of 1984 with exercises in the Caribbean.

In October 1985, the frigate ran again as part of the Coral Sea combat group in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, from where attacks against Libya were made. After returning to the US east coast, the ship was briefly overhauled in Boston , after which it remained for training missions in the Caribbean. In September 1987 the Capodanno left for Norway , where she took part in the "Ocean Safari 87" NATO maneuver. The fifth mission to the Mediterranean began at the end of February 1988.

The frigate was decommissioned on July 30, 1993, and remained in the Navy register of ships until January 11, 1995. On the day of its decommissioning, the ship was leased to Turkey , where it was put into service as the Muavenet (F-250) . The Turkish Navy acquired the ship in full on February 22, 2002 and is still using it today.

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