Please Report Any Broken Links Or Trouble You Might Come Across To The Webmaster
Please Take A Moment To Let Us Know So That We Can Correct Any Problems And Make Your Visit As Enjoyable And As Informative As Possible.


NavSource Online: Frigate Photo Archive


Ship's patch
Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

USS Copeland (FFG 25)


Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - R - W - C
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal


Class: Oliver Hazard Perry As Built (Short Hull)
Displacement: 2750 tons (std), 3605 tons (full)    Dimensions: 445' (oa) x 45' x 14' 9"; 24' 6" (sonar)
Armament: 1 OTO Melara 3"/62 cal. Mk 75, 1 Vulcan Phalanx CIS, 4-.50 cal. MGs,1 Mk 13 Mod 4 launcher,
4 SSM McDonnell-Douglas Harpoon missiles, 36 GDC-Pomona Standard SM-1MR missiles,
6-324mm Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes / Mk 46 torpedoes, 2 hangars / 1 SH-2 Seasprite LAMPS MkI helo
Machinery: 2 GE LM 2500 gas turbine engines; 41,000 shp; 1 shaft, cp propeller, 325 hp retractable propeller pods
Speed: 29 Knots    Crew: 13/206 (includes 19 air detachment)
Radars: AN/SPS-55 (surface), AN/SPS-49 (air)
Sonars: AN/SQS-56, AN/SQR-19 TACTAS (towed array)

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Todd Shipyard Corp. San Pedro CA on 24 October 1979
Launched 26 July 1980, Commissioned 7 August 1982
Assigned to Naval Reserve Force at San Diego CA, 30 September 1989
Decommissioned 18 September 1996, Stricken 18 September 1996

Fate: Transferred as Grant Aid to Egypt, 18 September 1996, renamed Mubarak (F916)

Click On Image
For Full Size Image
Size Image Description Contributed
By
Copeland 54k Robert Witcher Copeland (9 September 1910 - 25 August 1973) was born at Tacoma WA, enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1929 and was commissioned as a Naval Reserve officer in 1935. He practiced law from 1935 until 1940, when he was ordered to active duty during the Navy's pre-World War II expansion. During the War, he commanded USS Pawtucket (YT 7), USS Black Douglas (PYc 45), USS Wyman (DE 38) and USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE 413).

During the Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944, he commanded Samuel B. Roberts as a member of Task Unit 77.4.3, a small force of six escort (or "Jeep") carriers, three destroyers, and three destroyer-escorts - known as "Taffy 3." Lieutenant Commander Copeland led his ship and crew in an attack on a greatly superior Japanese battleship and cruiser force. Though his ship was lost, this action helped defeat the Japanese counter-offensive against the Leyte invasion, and for this, he was awarded the Navy Cross.

Following World War II, Copeland resumed his law career while remaining a member of the Naval Reserve, in which he rose to the rank of Rear Admiral. Robert W. Copeland died at Tacoma, Washington, on 25 August 1973.

USS Copeland FFG 25 was named in his honor.
   (US Navy photo #NH90680 from the US Naval Historical Center)
NavSource
Copeland 152k 18 May 1982: at sea - An aerial starboard beam view of the frigate USS Copeland (FFG 25) underway during sea trials. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC8311949 by Todd Pacific Shipyards, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 183k 18 May 1982: at sea - An aerial port bow view of Copeland underway during sea trials. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC8311948 by Todd Pacific Shipyards, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 211k 18 May 1982: at sea - An aerial port quarter view of Copeland underway during sea trials. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC8311942 by Todd Pacific Shipyards, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 141k 18 May 1982: at sea - An aerial stern view of Copeland underway during sea trials. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC8311944 by Todd Pacific Shipyards, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 150k 18 May 1982: at sea - An aerial bow view of Copeland underway during sea trials. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC8311945 by Todd Pacific Shipyards, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 136k 18 May 1982: at sea - An starboard quarter view of Copeland underway during sea trials. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC8311946 by Todd Pacific Shipyards, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 151 date / location unknown -
Copeland 91k date / location unknown Wendell R. McLaughlin, Jr.
Copeland 106k 22 April 1984: A port quarter view of Copeland moored to a pier during operations with the Australian navy as part of the joint Australia/New Zealand/US Exercise Pitch Black '84. (US Air Force photo, DVID #DFST8506914 by Msgt David N. Craft, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 98k 22 April 1984: A Standard-2 (SM-2) medium range missile is loaded onto a Mark 13 launcher aboard Copeland, as the ship operates as part of the joint Australia/New Zealand/US Exercise Pitch Black '84. (US Air Force photo, DVID #DFST8506915 by Msgt David N. Craft, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 000k 22 April 1984: A view of a Standard-2 (SM-2) medium range missile loaded onto a Mark 13 launcher aboard Copeland, as the ship operates as part of the joint Australia/New Zealand/US Exercise Pitch Black '84. (US Air Force photo, DVID #DFST8506916 by Msgt David N. Craft, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 232k 27 February 1987: San Diego CA - A port bow view of Copeland underway as it passes the Naval Submarine Base while departing San Diego. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC9002305 by PH1 Dutkiewicz, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 194k 27 February 1987: San Diego CA - A port bow view of Copeland underway as it departs San Diego. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC9002308 by PH1 Dutkiewicz, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 173k 27 February 1987: San Diego CA - A port quarter view of Copeland underway as it departs San Diego. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC9002307 by PH1 Dutkiewicz, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 130k 27 February 1987: San Diego CA - Aerial of Copeland underway in San Diego Bay with Point Loma in the background. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC0507451 by PH1 Dutkiewicz, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 105 date / location unknown (apparently from this sequence of photos) Jerry Hays
Copeland 128k 27 February 1987: San Diego CA - A port bow view of Copeland underway as it departs San Diego. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC9002298 by PH1 Dutkiewicz, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 147k 27 February 1987: San Diego CA - A port bow view of Copeland underway as it departs San Diego. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC9002309 by PH1 Dutkiewicz, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 135k 27 February 1987: San Diego CA - A port quarter view of Copeland underway as it departs San Diego. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC9002302 by PH1 Dutkiewicz, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 139k 27 February 1987: San Diego CA - A stern view of Copeland heading out to sea after departing San Diego. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC9002310 by PH1 Dutkiewicz, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 121k 1 March 1990: San Diego Harbor CA - Copeland passes by the Naval Submarine Base San Diego. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC9205698 by OS2 John Bouvia, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 98k 18 September 1990: at sea - Sailors onboard Copeland perform a ship to air refueling operation with a USN SH-2G Super Seasprite hovering above the ships helicopter deck. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC0414294 by PH3 C. Weightman, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 102k 18 September 1990: at sea - Sailors onboard Copeland perform a ship to air refueling operation with a USN SH-3G Sea King, Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 1 (HC-1), Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI), California (CA), hovering above the ships helicopter deck. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC0414295 by PH3 C. Weightman, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 93k 18 September 1990: at sea - Sailors onboard Copeland perform a ship to air refueling operation with a USN H-46 Seaknight, Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 11 (HC-11), Detachment 2 (Det. 2), Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI), California, hovering above the ships helicopter deck. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC0414296 by PH3 C. Weightman, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 86k 18 September 1990: at sea - Sailors onboard Copeland perform a ship-to-air refueling operation with a USN SH-60B Seahawk, from a Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light unit, hovering above the ships helicopter deck. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSC0414297 by PH3 C. Weightman, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 108k 24 May 1991: San Diego CA - A garland decorates the bow of Copeland as it lies tied up shortly after its return from deployment. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNSN9111570 by PH2 Norquist, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource
Copeland 89k 24 May 1991: San Diego CA - Electronics Technician 2nd Class Craig Owens is reunited with one of his sons aboard Copeland. Copeland has returned to San Diego following a deployment to the Western Pacific. (US Navy photo, DVID #DNST9111747 by JO1 Robert Wilson, from the Defense Visual Information Center) NavSource

Memoribilia
Ship's Plaque
Copeland

Courtesy of
Mike Smolinski


USS Copeland FFG 25 History
Note: History is unavailable at this time
This class of ship was built too late to be covered by the DANFS project

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None
Note About Contacts

Contact information is compiled from various sources over a period of time and may, or may not, be correct. Every effort has been
made to list the newest contact. However, our entry is only as good as the latest information that's been sent to us. We list only
a contact for the ship if one has been sent to us. We do NOT have crew lists or rosters available. Please see the Frequently Asked
Questions section on Navsource's Main Page for that information.


Additional Resources

USS Copeland Page on Military.Com
USS Copeland Page on Navysite
Tin Can Sailors - USS Copeland Crew Listing

To The DE/Frigate Photo Index Page Back To The Main Photo Index

Comments, Suggestions, or Image Submissions, Please E-mail: DE Info
Problems or Site Related Matters, Please E-mail: Webmaster

This Page Created by Daniel N. Dunham, Expanded and Maintained by Mike Smolinski
All Pages Copyright © 1996 - 2008 Paul R. Yarnall © 2008 Navsource Naval History. All Rights Reserved.
Page Last Updated 6 January 2008