USS Bronstein (FF-1037)

June 16, 1963 - December 13, 1990

2,650 tons

113,20 meters

12.30 meters

7.00 meters

199

A steam turbine 20,000 hp, a screw

The frigate USS Bronstein ( DE/FF-1037 ) was the lead ship of Bronstein class. She was from 1963 to 1990 in the service of the United States Navy, she was sold to Mexico in 1993, where she is still in active service. She was the second ship named for Lieutenant Ben Richard Bronstein, an officer of the Navy, whose ship was sunk during the Second World War by a German U - boat.

History

The keel was laid on May 16, 1961 at Avondale Shipyard in Westwego, Louisiana. The launch took place on March 31, 1962, the Bronstein as a destroyer escort ( DE) was placed in service in the Navy on 16 June 1963.

The first five years were spent in the Pacific Fleet, she was stationed in San Diego. It operated until 1965, mostly in the eastern Pacific, from 1966, in the Western Pacific. 1967 Bronstein was moved to Long Beach, California, where she was overtaken for the first time. In the fall of 1972, she ran back out to missions, it operates together with the America and the Midway off the Vietnamese coast. In 1973 she received during her stay shipyard towing sonar, after she was assigned to the carrier battle group of Kitty Hawk. After another western Pacific deployment in 1975 and the participation in the evacuation of Saigon, the Bronstein in 1976 overhauled again and frigates (FF ) reclassified. Until the removal of the towing sonar 1984, she continued to operate in the West Pacific, the late eighties then mostly off the American coast as part of support operations for the U.S. Coast Guard. On 13 December 1990 she was, asked a day before her sister ship McCloy decommissioned and assigned to the reserve fleet at Pearl Harbor. On 12 November 1993, the sale to Mexico, where it is in active service until today was.