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USS Brumby (DE1044)


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign:
N - E - R - A
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Huckster"
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: CG Meritorious Unit Commendation
Second Row: Navy Expeditionary Medal w/star - National Defense Service Medal - Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon
Specifications:
Class: Garcia
Type: SCB No. 199A / 1961 - 1963
Number in Class: 10
Displacement: 2,620 tons (std), 3,400 tons (full)
Length: 390' 0" (wl), 414' 6" (oa)
Beam: 44' 0" (extreme)
Draft: 24' 0" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 Foster Wheeler 1200-psi boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27 kts
Range: 4,000 nm @ 20 knots
Complement: 13 / 234
Guns: 2 - 5"/38 Mk30 Gun (2x1) (350 rounds)
ASW Weapons: 1 - Mk16 ASROC launcher (1x8) (16 missiles), 6 - 12.75" (324mm) Mk 32 torpedo tubes (2x3) / Mk 46 torpedos (18)
Radars: AN/SPS-10 (surface), AN/SPS-40 (air)
Sonars: AN/SQS-26AXR in DE 1040 - 1045, AN/SQS-26BX in DE 1047 - 1051
Fire Control Systems: Mk56 Mod 43 Gun FCS, Mk114 Mod 8/11 ASW FCS
Helicopter: 1 - SH-2 LAMPS Helicopter
Brumby (DE1044) Building and Operational Data:
  • 3 January 1962: Buiilding contract awarded to the Avondale Shipyards Corp.
  • 1 April 1963: Keel laid at the Avondale Shipyards, Westwego, La.
  • 6 June 1964: Launched and christened, co-sponsored by Misses Muriel Tuckerman Fitzgerald and Cornelia Truxtun Fitzgerald, Adm. Brumby's granddaughters
  • 5 August 1965: Commissioned at Charleston, S.C., Cdr George F. Tolson Jr. in command
  • 30 June 1975: Reclassified Frigate (FF1044)
  • 31 March 1989: Decommissioned after 23.7 years of service, leased to Pakistan, renamed PNS Harbah (F-266)
  • 19 August 1994: Stricken from the NVR
  • 9 September 1994: Transferred back to MARAD at Singapore, sold for scrap same date to Trusha Investments Pte. Ltd. c/o Jacques Pierot, Jr. & Sons Inc., New York City, N.Y. for $635,602.00
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    Brumby 45k March 1968: Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va. - These four shots were taken during Brumby's yard period.




    Top: Daylight shot of USS Brumby's sonar dome while in drydock.




    Second: Daylight shot of Brumby in drydock.




    Third: A night shot of Brumby in drydock.




    Fourth: A view of Brumby's pilothouse.    		 Terry Hoffer
    QM2, '67 - 12/70
    Brumby 44k
    Brumby 33k
    Brumby 50k
    Brumby 65k 1968: the Atlantic Ocean - underway off Cape Hatteras.
    Brumby 30k 1968: the Atlantic Ocean - sunset at sea.
    Brumby 49k 1968: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - full-dress ship while moored at Gitmo.
    Brumby 156k June 1972: off Guantanamo Bay Cuba - a six picture series of USS Brumby (DE1044) highlining with USCGC Ingham (WHEC 35), photos taken by ETN2 Greg Bevirt Terrence Wright
    Brumby 140k June 1972: off Guantanamo Bay Cuba - second photo
    Brumby 138k June 1972: off Guantanamo Bay Cuba - third photo
    Brumby 177k June 1972: off Guantanamo Bay Cuba - fourth photo
    Brumby 160k June 1972: off Guantanamo Bay Cuba - fifth photo
    Brumby 170k June 1972: off Guantanamo Bay Cuba - the sixth picture in a series of Brumby highlining with USCGC Ingham (WHEC35), photos taken by ETN2 Greg Bevirt
    Brumby 38k September 1972: location unknown Robert Hurst
    Brumby 229k November 1976: Brumby in the North Atlantic. (Photos © Richard Leonhardt) Richard Leonhardt
    Brumby 94k
    Brumby 102k
    Brumby 114k
    Brumby 341k 6 June 1979: Mediterranean Sea - NATO ships: Turkish DD Tinaztepe (D-355) [former USS Keppler DD765]; the British frigate Charybdis F-75; the Italian frigate Carabiniere F-581; and USS Brumby FF1044. (photographer unknown) Ed Zajkowski
    Brumby 213k 18 May 1983: A port bow view of the frigate Brumby underway during the NATO Exercise Distant Drum. (U.S. Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-87-02017 from DefenseImagery.mil) Navsource
    The USS Brumby (DE1044) DANFS history entry
    located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site is not presently available.
    Brumby's Commanding Officers
    Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves
    05 August 1965 -07 July 1966      Cmdr. George Franklin Tolson Jr.
    07 July 1966 - 19 August 1968   Cmdr. Paul G. Brown
    19 August 1968 - 21 November 1970   Cmdr. Philip R. Walker
    21 November 1970 - 15 February 1972   Cmdr. Leon C. Holder
    15 February 1972 - 07 March 1972   Cmdr. Stanley L. Turner
    07 March 1972 - 13 April 1973   Cmdr. Edward Courtland Snyder Jr.
    13 April 1973 - 14 July 1973   Cmdr. John J. Kingston
    14 July 1973 - 15 July 1975   Cmdr. Frederick K. Mangol
    15 July 1975 - 14 October 1976   Cmdr. William W. Pippinger
    14 October 1976 - 10 June 1978   Cmdr. David Gregory MacPherson
    10 June 1978 - 16 June 1980   Cmdr. William F. Glover III
    16 June 1980 - 13 September 1982   Cmdr. Jimmy Don Henderson
    13 September 1982 - 14 September 1984   Cmdr. Franklin G. West Jr.
    14 September 1984 - 14 November 1986   Cmdr. James D. Eldridge Jr.
    14 November 1986 - 31 March 1989   Cmdr. John Russell (Rusty) Wall
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Last Reunion
    2004 at Ft. Mitchell KY
    Contact Name: Michael Pierce
    E-mail: Michael Pierce
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    Additional Resources
    Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
    The Destroyer History Foundation
    Tin Can Sailors Shipmate Registry - USS Brumby
    USS Brumby Page on Destroyers Online
    USS Brumby Page on Military.Com
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