USS Garcia (FF-1040)
_underway_on_18_August_1972.jpg) USS Garcia (DE / FF-1040) |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | destroyer |
| Keel laying | October 16, 1962 |
| Launch | October 31, 1963 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| period of service |
December 21, 1964 - |
| Whereabouts | Wrecked |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
3,400 ts |
| length |
126.3 meters |
| width |
13.5 meters |
| Draft |
7.9 meters |
| crew |
16 officers, 231 sailors |
| drive |
1 propeller, 1 gear turbine, 2 boilers; 35,000 wave horsepower |
| speed |
27+ knots |
| Range |
4,000 nautical miles at 20 knots |
The USS Garcia (DE / FF-1040) was a frigate of the US Navy and lead ship of the Garcia class . The ship was named after Fernando Luis Garcia , who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for services in the Korean War . The Garcia served in the US Navy from 1964 to 1988 and as a Saif in the Pakistani Navy from 1989 to 1994 .
history
The Garcia was originally on June 22, 1961 as a destroyer escort ( escort destroyer , so the DE-ID) and ordered on 16 October 1962 Bethlehem Steel in San Francisco , California placed on Kiel. After the christening by the sister of the namesake, the ship was launched on October 31, 1963, the commissioning took place on December 21, 1964. After the first test drives off the Californian coast, the frigate was moved through the Panama Canal into the Atlantic in early 1965 and made in her new home port in Newport , Rhode Island . From there, the ship operated mainly as an escort ship for porters and convoys in the following years.
On November 10, the Garcia was decommissioned, on January 31, 1989 she was handed over to Pakistan . Until January 13, 1994 the ship served as a Saif in the Pakistani Navy, in March 1994 it was sold to Singapore for dismantling .
Web links
- Pictures of the Garcia at navsource.org
- Garcia at destroyersonline.com (Engl.)
