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DE-1048 USS SAMPLE

CLASS - GARCIA As Built
Displacement, 2620 Tons Standard, 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 GE geared turbine; 35,000shp; 1 shaft
Speed, 27.5 Knots, Range 4000 NM@20 Knts, Crew, 247 (16 officers)

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging, Seattle. on July 19 1963.
Launched April 28 1964.
Commissioned March 23 1968.
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1048) on June 30 1975.
Decommissioned September 23 1988.
Fate To Brazil April 15 1989.
Renamed Parana.
Still in Brazilian service as of early 2000.

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Sample 61k 1972 Tom Sparkman
Sample 103 Undated USN
Sample 89 Pearl Harbor, 1987 © Russell Crosby
Sample 63k Undated USN / Jerry Hays
Sample 63k Brazilian Navy photo, circa 1977 Artemio Bueno Rosa Jr
Sample 47K Ship's Patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Sample 42K Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS SAMPLE DE-1048 History
Not available at this time
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None Located
Contact Name: None
Address: None
Phone: None
E-mail: None


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.


Additional Resources
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