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DEG-2 / FFG-2 USS RAMSEY

CLASS - BROOKE As Built
Displacement, 2643 Tons Standard, 3426 Tons Full Load,
Dimensions, 415' x 44' x 14' 6"; 24' (sonar)
Armament, 1 - 5"/38 (single) Mk 56, 1 ASROC octuple launcher,
1 Tartar/Standard MR single Mk 22 launcher,
6-324mm US Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes for Mk 46 torpedoes.
Machinery, 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000shp; 1 shaft
Speed, 27.2 Knots, Range 4000 NM @20 Knots, Crew, 214 (14 officers)

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Lockheed SB & Constr. 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 at 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 August 28 1972. Craig Chaddock. Official U.S. Navy Photo # VBP-03229-8-72.
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
Ramsey 51k ship's patch (DEG) Mike Smolinski
Ramsey 54k ship's patch (FFG) Mike Smolinski

USS RAMSEY FFG-2 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None Located
Contact Name: None
Address: None
Phone: None
E-mail: None


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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