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DE-1041 USS BRADLEY

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 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000shp; 1 shaft
Speed, 27.5 knots, Range 4,000 nm@20 Knots, Crew, 247 (16 officers)

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco CA on 17 January 1963m Launched 26 March 1964
Commissioned 15 May 1965
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1041) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 9 September 1988
FateTo Brazil 15 April 1989, renamed Pernnambuco
Still in service as of early 2000.

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Bradley 144kb Undated USN
Bradley 44kb Undated Joe Barbaritz
Sample 75kb Brazilian Navy photo, circa 1980 Artemio Bueno Rosa Jr
Bradley 54kb ship's patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Bradley 42kb ship's patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Bradley 56kb ship's patch (FF)
English motto
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Bradley 58kb ship's patch (FF)
Latin motto
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USS BRADLEY DE-1041 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: 7 - 10 October 2004, Hanalei Hotel, San Diego, CA

Contact Name: Bruce Gottsch, Director, USS BRADLEY Association
Address: 20 Crambrook Road / New City NY 10956
Phone: (845)634-3993
E-mail: bgottsch@optonline.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 Bradley Association Website

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