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DE-1051 USS O'CALLAHAN

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 MI on 19 February 1964, Launched 20 October 1965
Commissioned 13 July 1968
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1051) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 20 December 1988
Fate To Pakistan 8 February 1989
Renamed Aslat.
Returned to the US 14 November 1993, Stricken 14 November 1993
Sold 29 March 1994 and broken up for scrap

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O' Callahan 135k Undated USN
O' Callahan 97k Undated USN
O' Callahan 54k August 1968 off the Virginia Coast. enroute to her homeport of San Diego, California after being commissioned on July 13, 1968 in Boston, Mass. This photo shows the O'Callahan in her original configuration, without the sliding hangar bay that was installed later -- post 1972. Bill Scroggins, GMG1
O' Callahan 44k Ship's Patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
O' Callahan 47k Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski
O' Callahan 46k Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS O'CALLAHAN DE-1051 History
Not available at this time
DANFS History Archive
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Next Reunion:Tennessee, summer of 2004 (date & city not finalized yet)
Contact Name:Ed Boruff
Address:none
Phone:none
E-mail:edjere@prodigy.net


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
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association

USS O'CALLAHAN Reunion Association Web Site


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