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DE-1043 USS EDWARD McDONNELL

CLASS - GARCIA As Built
Displacement: 2620 tons (std), 3560 tons (full load),
Dimensions: 414' 6" x 44' 3" x 14' 6"; 24' (sonar)
Armament: 2 - 5"/38 (single) Mk 30, 1 ASROC octuple launcher
6-324mm US Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes for Mk 46 torpedoes
Machinery: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27.5 knots; Range: 4000 nm@20 knots; Crew: 247 (16 officers)

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Avondale Marine, Avondale LA on 1 April 1963, Launched 15 February 1964
Commissioned 15 February 1965
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1043) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 30 September 1988, Stricken 15 December 1992
Fate:sold 25 July 1995
(3/25/02) Being scrapped by Metro Machine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, At the old Naval Shipyard.

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Edward McDonnell 53 Mediterranean 1966 Bob LaFont
Edward McDonnell 48 In the North Atlantic, summer 1970 © Steve Singlar ETCS USNR-ret.
Edward McDonnell 81 In the North Atlantic, summer 1970 © Steve Singlar ETCS USNR-ret.
Edward McDonnell 4176kb 1972 movie, one minute. Shows McDonnell refueling from the Nantahala (AO-60). My ship, the USS Intrepid was on port side of Nantahala, so my vantage point was excellent. I'll follow this with another video of the Voge. We had pretty heavy seas that day, she took some hefty white water over the bow as she broke away from the refueling....exciting footage. Jim Converse,
former Lt.(jg),
USS Intrepid (CVS-11)
Edward McDonnell 48 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, around July of 1978 © Walter Bengtson
Edward McDonnell 67 USS Edward McDonnell (FF 1043) taken at Barcelona, Spain, on January 29, 1983. Visible in this photo are many of the ship's radar, communications and EW antennas. There is no ASROC reload magazine. Fabio Pena
Edward McDonnell 59K Ship's Patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Edward McDonnell 68K Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS EDWARD McDONNELL DE-1043 History
Not available at this time
DANFS History Archive
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: John C. Collins
Address:202 Terrace Ave. / Riverside RI 02915
Phone:(401) 433-4998
E-mail: john1297@cox.net


Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.


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