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USS Voge (DE-1047)

N - Z - X - Q
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Armor Glass"

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation w/ 1 star - CG Meritorious Unit Commendation w/ 1 star
Second Row: Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (3) - Navy Expeditionary Medal - National Defense Service Medal
Third Row: Humanitarian Service Ribbon - Sea Service Deployment Ribbon - CG Special Operations Service Ribbon w/ 3 stars

Class: Garcia (As Built)      FY / SCB No.: 61-63/199A
Displacement: 2620 tons (std), 3400 tons (full)    Dimensions: 414' 6"(oa), 390" (wl) x 44 x 24'
Armament: 2 x 5"/38 Mk 30, 1 ASROC Mk16 (16 missiles), 4-324mm Mk 32 (4x1 fixed) tubes / Mk 46 torpedos
Machinery: 2 FW 1200-psi boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27 knots    Range: 4,000 nm @ 20 knots    Crew: 13 / 234
Radars: AN/SPS-10 (surface), AN/SPS-40 (air)
Sonars: AN/SQS-26AXR in FF-1040 - 1045, AN/SQS-26BX in FF-1046 - 1051

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Defoe Shipbuilding, Bay City MI on 21 November 1963
Launched 4 February 1965, Commissioned 25 November 1966
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1047) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 23 September 1989, Stricken 15 December 1992

Fate: Sold for scrapping 25 July 1995

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
51k	date / location unknown	Robert Hurst
78k	12 June 1970: in the N. Atlantic (Photo © Richard Leonhardt)	Richard Leonhardt
6293k	1972 movie, one minute. Shows USS *Voge* (DE-1047) moving up from lifeguard station to refuel from USS *Nantahala* (AO-60), after USS *Edward McDonnell's breakaway. My ship, the USS Intrepid* (CV-11) was on port side of *Nantahala*, so my vantage point was excellent. We had pretty heavy seas that day, she took some hefty white water over the bow ....exciting footage.	Jim Converse, former Lt.(jg), USS Intrepid (CVS-11)
112k	20 November 1986: At sea - A aerial port quarter view of Voge underway. (US Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-87-01420 from the Defense Visual Information Center)	Navsource
144k	12 August 1988: At sea - A port beam view of Voge underway with the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) battle group. The ship, which is part of Task Group 24.2, is in the 18-ship formation that is transiting the North Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. (US Navy photo DVID #DN-ST-89-01279 by PH2 William Lipski from the DVIC)
155k	1 September 1988: At sea - A starboard quarter view of Voge conducting a high-speed evasive maneuver while operating with the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) battle group. (US Navy photo DVID #DN-ST-89-02073 by JO1 Millie Tamberg from the DVIC)
129k	8 November 1988: Augusta Bay, Sicily, Italy - A view of ship's composing the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) battle group tied up alongside each other. They are, left to right: Voge, the frigate USS McCandless (FF-1084), the destroyer tender USS Yellowstone (AD-41), the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS Bainbridge (CGN-25) and the guided missile frigate USS McInerney (FFG-8). (US Navy photo DVID #DN-ST-89-02109 by JO1 Millie Tamberg from the DVIC)
100k	date unknown: Philadelphia PA - *Voge* outboard, and *Edward McDonnell* (FF-1043) sharing a berth just ahead of the heavy cruiser *Des Moines* (CA-134) at the Inactive Ship Facility in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. (from the authors collection, photo taken from Warship Boneyards by Kit and Carolyn Bonner)	Robert Hurst

View the USS Voge (DE-1047), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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Additional Resources

Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
USS Voge Page on Destroyers Online
USS Voge Page on Military.Com
USS Voge Page on Navysite

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