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DEG-3 / FFG-3 USS SCHOFIELD
CLASS - BROOKE As Built
Displacement: 2643 tons (std), 3426 tons (full) Dimensions: 414'(oa) 390'(wl) x 44' x 14' 6"; 24' (sonar)
Armament: 1 - 5"/38 Mk 56, 1 Mk112 ASROC octuple launcher (16 RUR-5A missiles), 1 Tartar single
Mk 22 launcher (16 missiles), 6-324mm Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes for Mk 46 torpedos
Machinery: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27.2 Knots Range: 4000 nm @20 Knots Crew: 14 / 214
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Lockheed Shipbuilding & Construction Co., Seattle WA on 15 April 1963
Launched 7 December 1963, Commissioned 11 May 1968
Reclassified Frigate (FFG-3) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 8 September 1988, Stricken 25 January 1992
Fate: Sunk as a target, 2 November 1999
Location: 036-16'00.7" North, 120-48'00.0" West
Depth: 1954 fathoms Tonnage: 2500
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Additional Ship's Memoribilia
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View the Schofield (DEG-3)
DANFS history entry (not presently available) on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
None Located
Contact Name: Tom Gillespie
Address:37 Elizabeth Ave. / Cranford NJ 07016-2419
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.
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