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USS Bronstein (FF-1037)
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 USS Bronstein (FF-1037) |
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| Career (US) |  |
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| Name: | Bronstein |
| Namesake: | Ben Richard Bronstein |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyard, Inc., Westwego, Louisiana |
| Laid down: | May 16, 1961 |
| Launched: | March 31, 1962 |
| Acquired: | June 8, 1963 |
| Commissioned: | 16 June 1963 |
| Decommissioned: | 13 December 1990 |
| Struck: | 4 October 1991 |
| Fate: | sold to Mexico, 12 November 1993 as Hermenegildo Galeana (E-42) |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bronstein class frigate |
| Displacement: | approx. 2,650 tons full load |
| Length: | 371.4 feet (113.2 meters) |
| Beam: | 40.4 feet (12.3 meters) |
| Draft: | 23 feet (7 meters) |
| Propulsion: | 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000shp; 1 shaft |
| Speed: | 26 knots |
| Complement: | 16 officers, 183 enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPS-10 surface search radar AN/SPS-40 air search radar AN/SPG-35 Gun fire control radar AN/SQS-26 bow-mounted sonar AN/SQR-15 towed sonar array |
| Armament: | one Mk-16 missile launcher for ASROC missiles two Mk-33 3-inch/50 caliber guns (one mount) Mk-46 torpedoes from two Mk-32 triple tube mounts |
| Aircraft carried: | None / QH-50 DASH |
USS Bronstein (FF-1037) was the lead ship of the Bronstein class frigate of the US Navy. Named in honor of Ben Richard Bronstein, Assistant Surgeon, who was killed in action 28 February 1942 when USS Jacob Jones (DD-130) was sunk by an enemy submarine off Cape May, New Jersey. Bronstein was commissioned on 16 June 1963 as an DE 1037. She was decommissioned 13 December 1990 and struck from the Navy list on 4 October 1991. Bronstein was disposed of through the Security Assistance Program as a foreign military sale on 12 November 1993.[1] Sold to Mexico, 12 November 1993 as Hermenegildo Galeana (E-42).
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