USS Koelsch (FF-1049)

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Front view of the Koelsch
Front view of the Koelsch
Overview
Order March 21, 1963
Keel laying 19th February 1964
Launch June 8, 1965
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning October 19, 1967
Decommissioning May 31, 1989
Whereabouts scrapped
Technical specifications
displacement

2624  ts (empty)

length

126.3 m

width

13.4 m

Draft

7.5 m

crew

16 officers, 231 soldiers

drive

2 Foster Wheeler boilers, 1 steam turbine, 35,000 shaft horsepower

speed

27 knots

The USS Koelsch (DE / FF-1049) was a Garcia-class frigate of the United States Navy . It entered service in 1967 and was named after Lieutenant John Kelvin Koelsch , a helicopter pilot who died as a prisoner of war in the Korean War .

history

The Koelsch was laid down on February 19, 1964 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City , Michigan . After baptism by the widow of the namesake, Mrs. Virginia L. Koelsch, the ship ran June 8, 1965 from the stack and, after completion of the equipment work on 19 October 1967 with the US Navy as a destroyer escort (Destroyer Escort, identification DE ) put into service. Until the end of service in 1989, the Koelsch was subordinate to the US Atlantic Fleet and stationed in Newport , Rhode Island .

After her decommissioning from the US Navy on May 31, 1989, the USS Koelsch was leased to the Pakistani Navy . Due to the political situation there, the rental was canceled and the ship returned to American ownership in 1994. After being deleted from the register of ships, the frigate was sold to Trusha Investments Pte. Ltd , New York City , and demolished and scrapped in Hong Kong .

literature

  • K. Jack Bauer and Stephen S. Roberts: Register of Ships of the US Navy, 1775-1990
  • Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships, 1947-1995
  • Naval Institute: Proceedings , May 1995, pp. 219-221.

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