USS Bradley (FF-1041)

Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan

3400 ts

126.34 m

13.44 m

7.9 m

16 officers, 231 sailors

1 propeller, 1 Westinghouse geared turbine, 2 Foster -Wheeler boilers; 35,000 shaft horsepower

27 kn (50 km / h)

4,000 sm ( 7408 km ) at 20 knots

2 x 5 -inch gun 1 x Mk16 ASROC launcher 6 x Mark -32 torpedoes, 6 x Mark 46 torpedoes 2 x Mark 37 torpedoes

USS Bradley (FF -1041 ) was the second frigate of the Garcia class of United States Navy. It was named after Willis W. Bradley, MP for California in the U.S. House of Representatives and support the Medal of Honor, named. It was later sold to the Brazilian Navy, and now bears the name of Pernambuco.

History

U.S. Navy

The keel laying of Bradley found on January 17, 1963 in San Francisco, the launching on March 26 in 1964. It was put into service on May 15, 1965 and.

The first use led the Bradley July to December, 1966 to the coast of South Vietnam, where it provided fire support, and in the Gulf of Tonkin, where she was escorting an aircraft carrier. In February 1967, the prototype of the Sea Sparrow was installed to test the system from May of the year, after completion of the test, the system was dismantled in September.

The second deployment of Bradley began in December 1967, but was ordered in response to an incident with the USS Pueblo in the Sea of ​​Japan. In March 1968, she then resumed the service as a fire support against the South Vietnamese coast. After a final application in July of the year in which they missed 3,247 shot from her 5 -inch gun, they returned to their base back to San Diego.

Between October 1968 and May 1969 significant maintenance work took place; so a new sonar was installed by the type SQS -26 and overhauled both boilers.

The third assignment bein consider the monitoring of the Okean - maneuver the Soviet Navy in April 1970, followed by other escorts for an aircraft carrier. Overall, Bradley spent the next five years in Southeast asian matic space, which were only interrupted by maintenance in the years 1971 and 1972.

As of June 1975, Bradley was overhauled for a year, the landing platform was extended for the helicopter. In the same year, she was reclassified from the destroyer escort ( DE) as a frigate. After a few test runs mid-1976 she was transferred to the Indian Ocean as a new area of ​​operations, where she completed three missions again until mid- 1979. There was a renewed one-year overhaul. She then served on the coast of Korea and Malaysia, before it was once again from mid-1983 for a year due to maintenance work in the dock. After each another use in the western and northern Pacific between 1986 and June 1988, she was placed out of service on September 30, 1988.

Brazilian Navy

In September 1989, Bradley was leased to the Brazilian Navy, renamed Pernambuco (D 30) and classified as a destroyer. In January 2001, she was stricken from the register of ships of the U.S. Navy and ultimately sold to Brazil. The Pernambuco took part in several military exercises between 2001 and spring 2003. On 11 March 2004, the decommissioning was carried out; However, it remains in the reserve.