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DE-1040 USS GARCIA

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 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000shp; 1 shaft
Speed, 27.5 Knots, Range 4,000 Nm@20knts, Crew, 247 (16 officers)

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco. on October 16 1962.
Launched October 3 1963.
Commissioned December 21 1964.
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1040) on June 30 1975.
Decommissioned November 10 1988.
Fate To Pakistan January 31 1989.
Renamed Saif.
Returned to the US January 13 1994.
Stricken January 14 1994.
Sold March 29 1994 and broken up for scrap.

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Garcia 140 undated USN
Garcia 84 photo taken in 1969, Cuba in the background © Steve Singlar ETCS USNR-ret.
Garcia 64 Garcia, Edward MacDonald and Wasp in Copenhagen, June or July 1970 © Steve Singlar ETCS USNR-ret.
Garcia 90 undated image (early 80's) Thomas J. Comerford Jr.
Garcia 175 Lead ship of the class and the prototype for 62 large ocean escort vessels. Two items of interest are the ASROC reloading crane stowed on the front of her bridge face and the torpedo launching cutout in her stern. USN
Garcia 31 Garcia in rough sea. From The Destroyers Online Web Site
Garcia 98 Garcia leaving San Juan, in 1969 or 70. Steve Singlar ETCS USNR-ret.
Garcia 120 Night fire of her 5" gun in 1969 or 70. © STG3 Bill Voss, 1967 - 1970.
Garcia 71 Oct 21, 1985 - Mediterranean Sea: An elevated port bow view of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV 60), the fast combat support ship USS Seattle (AOE 3) and the frigate USS Garcia (FF 1040) participating in an underway replenishment. Fred Weiss
Garcia 55K ship's patch Mike Smolinski

USS GARCIA DE-1040 History
View This Vessel's DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

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.


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