USS Bronstein (FF-1037)

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USS Bronstein (FF-1037)
Career (US) United States Navy ensign
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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