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DE-1049 USS KOELSCH

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 Defoe Shipbuilding, Bay City Mich. on February 19 1965.
Launched June 8 1965.
Commissioned June 10 1967.
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1049) on June 30 1975.
Decommissioned May 31 1989.
Fate To Pakistan May 31 1989.
Renamed Siqqat.
Returned to US in 1993.
Stricken August 19 1994.
Sold March 29 1994 and broken up for scrap.

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Koelsch 168k Summer of 1978 in Chesapeake Bay on departure from an extended ROH at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Baltimore, MD USN
Koelsch 74k - USN
Koelsch 77k Rockland Maine, August 2 1970 © Richard Leonhardt
Koelsch 84k Dry Dock, Boston Naval Shipyard, October 2 1970 © Richard Leonhardt
Koelsch 99k Roosevelt Roads, PR., January 25 1971 © Richard Leonhardt
Koelsch 89k Off St. Croix,, January 29 1971 © Richard Leonhardt
Koelsch 84k Boston Naval Shipyard, September 22 1970 © Richard Leonhardt
Koelsch 60k Pier 92, New York City, August 9 1970 © Richard Leonhardt
Koelsch 58k Rockland Maine, August 2 1970 © Richard Leonhardt
Koelsch 30k Persian Gulf, March 1980 © Walter Bengtson
Koelsch 49k Rockland Maine, August 1970 © Richard Leonhardt
Koelsch 199k Koelsch approaching fueling pier, Guantanamo. USNS Bondia on left. February 26 1971. © Richard Leonhardt
Koelsch 215k Guantanamo, February 26 1971. © Richard Leonhardt
Koelsch 85k Ship's Patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Koelsch 62k Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski
Koelsch 46k Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski
Koelsch 52k August 2 1970, Rockland Maine. © Richard Leonhardt

USS KOELSCH DE-1049 History
View This Vessels 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.

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