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Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

DEG-2 / FFG-2 USS RAMSEY

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 SB & Construction Co., Seattle WA on 4 February 1963
Launched 15 October 1963, Commissioned 3 June 1967
Reclassified Frigate (FFG-2) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 1 September 1988, Stricken 25 January 1992

Fate: Sunk as a target during RIMPAC 2000 exercise, 15 June 2000
Location: 023-53'00.6" North, 159-35'00.5" West
Depth: 2700 fathoms Tonnage: 2640

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Ramsey 337k image from the first cruise book Bill Walters (then IC2).
Ramsey 77k Pearl Harbor, May 1968 © Richard Leonhardt
Ramsey 145k underway off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii 28 August 1972 Craig Chaddock. Official U.S. Navy Photo # VBP-03229-8-72.
Ramsey 84k Vega (AF-59) and Ramsey during underway replenishment in the Gulf of Tonkin, date unknown Richard Miller, BMCS
USNR(ret.), USS Vega
Ramsey 20k steaming off the coast of San Diego, circa 1978-79. David Jones.
Ramsey 73k Tied up near Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, 1986 Chris Ronan
Additional Ship's Memoribilia
Ramsey
Ship's Plaque
Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

View the Ramsey (DEG-2)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information

2nd Annual Reunion
9 to 13 September 2004 (Thu. to Mon.)
The Imperial Palace in Biloxi MS

Contact Name: Nick Previti
Address: Newburgh NY
E-mail: ramsey2nedist@aol.com


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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