USS Pharris (FF-1094)

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USS Pharris (DE / FF-1094)
USS Pharris (DE / FF-1094)
Overview
Type frigate
Keel laying February 11, 1972
Launch December 16, 1972
1. Period of service flag
period of service

January 26, 1974 -
April 15, 1992

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 Pharris (DE / FF-1094) was a Knox-class frigate of the United States Navy . It was named after Lieutenant Commander Jackson C. Pharris, who received the Medal of Honor for his service on the USS California during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , and served in the US Navy from 1974 to 1992; Mexican Navy deployed.

history

The Pharris was laid down on February 11, 1972 at Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans , Louisiana . The launch took place on December 16 of that year, the commissioning took place on January 26, 1974 in Norfolk , Virginia , where it also had its home port. In the following years, the ship mostly operated with aircraft carrier associations and took part in multinational exercises such as UNITAS . In the 1980s the frigate was also on the move in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and also took part in the BALTOPS exercises in the Baltic Sea. In 1987 she was part of the fleet during Operation Earnest Will , where she accompanied, among other things, the Mighty Servant II , which transported the frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts, damaged by an Iranian mine, to its home port.

The Pharris was decommissioned on April 15, 1992 and assigned to the reserve fleet, on January 11, 1995 it was deleted from the Naval Vessel Register. On June 15, 1999, the frigate was sold to Mexico , where it has been used as ARM Victoria since the spring of 2000 .

Pharris in literature

The Pharris plays an important role in Tom Clancy's thriller Im Sturm , accompanying US convoys across the Atlantic. Her bow was torn away during a torpedo attack by a Soviet Victor III submarine .

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