USS Pharris (FF-1094)

January 26, 1974 - April 15, 1992

4100 ts

133.5 meters

14.25 meters

7.6 meters

17 officers, 228 sailors

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

27 nodes

4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots

The USS Pharris ( DE/FF-1094 ) was a frigate of the Knox - class of the United States Navy. She was named for Lieutenant Commander Jackson C. Pharris, the Medal of Honor was awarded for his work on the USS California during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and served from 1974 to 1992 in the U.S. Navy since 2000, she is of the Mexican Navy used.

History

The Pharris was laid on February 11, 1972 at Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans, Louisiana on Kiel. The launch took place on 16 December of the year the commissioning took place on January 26, 1974 in Norfolk, Virginia, where it also had its home port. In the following years the ship was operating mostly with aircraft carrier groups and took part in multinational exercises such as UNITAS. In the eighties, the frigate was also in the Mediterranean and in the Middle East on the road, as they took part in the BALTOPS exercises in the Baltic Sea. In 1987 she was part of the fleet during Operation Earnest Will, where she also the Mighty Servant II accompanied among others, which transported the damaged by an Iranian mine frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts to its home port.

The Pharris was made on 15 April 1992 decommissioned and assigned to the reserve fleet, on 11 January 1995 was the removal from the Naval Vessel Register. On 15 June 1999, the frigate was sold to Mexico, where it is used since the spring of 2000 as ARM Victoria.

Pharris in the literature

In Tom Clancy's thriller In the storm the Pharris plays an important role, they accompanied U.S. convoys across the Atlantic. During a torpedo attack by a Soviet Victor III submarine it is torn away the bug.