USS Koelsch (FF-1049)

2624 ts (empty)

126.3 m

13.4 m

7.5 m

16 officers, 231 soldiers

2 Foster -Wheeler boilers, 1 steam turbine, 35,000 shaft horsepower

27 knots

The USS Koelsch ( DE/FF-1049 ) was a frigate of the Garcia class of United States Navy. It was put into service in 1967 and was named after the late North Korean prisoner of war in the Korean War helicopter pilot Lieutenant John Kelvin Koelsch.

History

The Koelsch was laid on February 19, 1964 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan on Kiel. After the baptism by the widow of its namesake, Mrs. Virginia L. Koelsch, the ship ran on 8 June 1965 by the launching and the equipment after the completion of work on 19 October 1967 with the U.S. Navy as a destroyer escort ( Destroyer Escort, identification DE ) put into service. By the end of the period of service in 1989 Koelsch of the U.S. Atlantic fleet was subordinated and stationed in Newport, Rhode Iceland.

After her decommissioning in the U.S. Navy on 31 May 1989, the USS Koelsch was leased to the Pakistani military. Because of the political situation there, the rental but was canceled and the ship returned in 1994 back in American possession. After removal from the register of ships, the frigate Trusha Investments Pte. Ltd., New York City and sold in Hong Kong and canceled scrapped.