USS Stein (FF-1065)

January 9, 1972 - March 19, 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 Stein ( DE/FF-1065 ) was a frigate of the Knox - class of the United States Navy. She was named after Private Tony Stein, USMC, who fell during the Battle of Iwo Jima. The ship served from 1972 to 1992 in the U.S. Navy, since 1997 it is used by Mexico.

History

The keel laying of the stone took place on June 1, 1970 at Lockheed Shipbuilding in Seattle, Washington. After christening the ship ran on 19 December 1970 by Stack, the commissioning took place on 8 January 1972. In April 1973, after further testing equipment and the first deployment began in the Pacific, he was followed by eight more. The stone was part of the U.S. fleet during the hostage-taking in Tehran and was used during the Iran- Iraq war several times in the Gulf region. 1987 orbited the frigate the globe. During Operation Desert Storm, she also belonged to the American attack fleet. After nearly 20 years of service, the ship on 19 March 1992, decommissioned and assigned to the reserve fleet. On January 11, 1995, it was then removed from the Naval Vessel Register on 29 January 1997, the former frigate was sold to Mexico, which she uses as Ignacio Allende until today.