USS O'Callahan (FF-1051)
_underway_off_Oahu_on_6_September_1972.jpg) USS O'Callahan |
|
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | frigate |
| Shipyard |
Defoe Shipbuilding Company , Bay City, Michigan |
| Order | March 21, 1963 |
| Keel laying | 19th February 1964 |
| Launch | October 20, 1965 |
| delivery | July 1, 1968 |
| Namesake | Joseph T. O'Callahan |
| 1. Period of service |
|
| Commissioning | July 13, 1968 |
| Decommissioning | December 20, 1988 |
| Removed from ship register | August 19, 1994 |
| home port | Naval Base San Diego |
| Whereabouts | sold to Trusha Investments Pte. Ltd, scrapped in Hong Kong |
| 2. Period of service |
|
| period of service | 1989-1993 |
| Commissioning | February 8, 1989 |
| Decommissioning | December 11, 1993 |
| 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, |
| drive |
1 propeller, |
| speed | |
| Range | |
| Armament |
2 × 5-inch guns, |
USS O'Callahan (FF-1051) was a frigate of the Garcia class of the United States Navy . It was named after the military chaplain Joseph T. O'Callahan , recipient of the Medal of Honor .
history
The keel-laying of the O'Callahan took place on February 19, 1964 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City , Michigan ; the ship was launched and the ship was christened on October 20, 1965. Godmother was Joseph T. O'Callahan's sister , sister Rose Marie O'Callahan of Maryknoll College in the Philippines . She was the first nun to christen a U.S. Navy ship.
The commissioning under the command of Captain Robert L. Brown was on July 13, 1968 at the Boston Naval Shipyard in Boston , Massachusetts . After the equipment in Boston, the O'Callahan was relocated to San Diego , California on August 16, 1968 . On the way she made stops in Norfolk , Charleston and Fort Lauderdale .
On October 1, she left San Diego for the Pacific Northwest for a 25-day test of electronics and weapon systems. After combat exercises off the coast of Hawaii , she ran on March 4, 1969 in the Long Beach Naval Shipyard for further inspections until mid-May 1969. After completing further training trips off San Diego, she operated in the western Pacific .
The O'Callahan , originally classified as a destroyer , was downgraded to a frigate on June 30, 1975 and was designated FF-1051 . She remained in service until May 31, 1989.
After decommissioning, she was leased to the Pakistani Navy . 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 in Singapore on August 19, 1994 , and removed from the shipping register on the same day. On September 9, it was handed over to the United States Maritime Administration , which sold it to a company for scrapping in Hong Kong.
Web links
- USS O'Callahan data on the Naval Vessel Register
- History of USS O'Callahan (FF-1051) in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)
- Photos on destroyersonline.com
- Playing Chicken of the Sea. TIME Magazine , March 28, 1977, accessed March 19, 2010 .
