USS O'Callahan (FF-1051)
Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan
3400 ts
126.34 m
13.44 m
7.9 m
16 officers, 231 sailors
1 propeller, One General Electric 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 O'Callahan (FF -1051 ) was a frigate of the Garcia class of the United States Navy. It was after the military chaplains Joseph T. O'Callahan, carriers of the Medal of Honor named.
History
The keel laying of O'Callahan was held on February 19, 1964 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan instead, launching and christening was on 20 October 1965. Godmother was the sister of Joseph T. O'Callahan, Sister Rose Marie O'Callahan Maryknoll College in the Philippines. She was the first nun who christened a ship of the U.S. Navy.
Entry into service under the command of Captain Robert L. Brown was on 13 July 1968 by the Boston Naval Shipyard in Boston, Massachusetts. After the equipment in the Boston O'Callahan was laid on 16 August 1968, after San Diego, California. On the journey they made a stop in Norfolk, Charleston and Fort Lauderdale.
On October 1, she left San Diego Pacific to the northwest, to perform a 25 -day trial of the electronics and weapons systems. After combat exercises off the coasts of Hawaii, she ran on March 4, 1969 in the Long Beach Naval Shipyard for further checks until mid-May 1969. After the conclusion of further Traingsfahrten off San Diego she was operating in the western Pacific.
The O'Callahan, originally classified as a destroyer, was downgraded on 30 June 1975 to the frigate and received the designation FF- 1051. She remained until May 31, 1989 at Service.
After decommissioning she was leased to the Pakistan Navy. Since Pakistan 's refusal to stop its program to produce nuclear weapons, the United States announced the lease in 1994. The ship was handed over on 19 August 1994 in Singapore, the U.S. Navy and stricken from the register of ships on the same day. On 9 September, she was the United States Maritime Administration passed, which she sold to a company for scrapping in Hong Kong.