USS Garcia (FF-1040)

December 21, 1964 - November 10, 1988

3400 ts

126.3 meters

13.5 meters

7.9 meters

16 officers, 231 sailors

1 propeller, 1 gear turbine, two boilers; 35,000 shaft horsepower

27 nodes

4,000 nautical miles at 20 knots

The USS Garcia ( DE/FF-1040 ) was a frigate of the United States Navy and lead ship of the Garcia class. The ship was named after Fernando Luis Garcia, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for Merit in the Korean War. The Garcia served from 1964 to 1988 in the U.S. Navy and from 1989 to 1994, Saif in Pakistani Navy.

History

The Garcia was born on June 22, 1961 at Bethlehem Steel in San Francisco, California originally laid out as an escort destroyer ( destroyer escort, so the DE- ID) and ordered on 16 October 1962 Kiel. After the baptism by the sister of its namesake, the ship ran aground on 31 October 1963 by the stack, the commissioning was carried out on 21 December 1964. According to initial sea trials off the California coast, the frigate was transferred in early 1965 through the Panama Canal to the Atlantic Ocean and made in its new home port of Newport, Rhode Iceland firmly. From there, the ship operated in the following years, especially as escort ship for carrier battle groups and convoys.

On 10 November, Garcia was decommissioned, on 31 January 1989, she was handed over to Pakistan. January 13, 1994, the ship served as Saif in Pakistani Navy in March 1994 it was sold for scrapping to Singapore.