USS Davidson (FF-1045)

Avondale Shipyards

3400 ts

126.34 m

13.44 m

7.9 m

16 officers, 245 sailors

1 propeller, 1 turbine gearbox, 2 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 Davidson (FF -1045 ) was a frigate of the Garcia class of the United States Navy. It was named after Vice Admiral Lyal A. Davidson. The commissioning of the Davidson took place on December 7, 1965 in Charleston. She was later transferred to the home port Pearl Harbor. Your area of ​​operation was the western Pacific, where it was used in the Vietnam War. In 1975, it was originally conceived as a destroyer escort, reclassified along with the other ships in the Garcia- class frigate as.

The Außerdienststellungder Davidson took place on 8 December 1988. It was in 1989 sold to the Brazilian Navy, and there placed under the name of Paraiba in service on 25 July 1989. On 26 July 2002, the decommissioning was carried out.

The Davidson sank on the way to India, where she was dragged along with the sample to be scrapped.