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USS Garcia (FF-1040)
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| Name: | USS Garcia (FF-1040) |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Steel (San Francisco, California) |
| Laid down: | October 16, 1962 |
| Launched: | October 31, 1963 |
| Sponsored by: | Daisy Garcia de Alvarez |
| Commissioned: | DE-1040 December 21, 1964 |
| In service: | 1964 |
| Reclassified: | FF-1040 June 30, 1975* |
| Struck: | March 29, 1994 |
| Homeport: | Newport, Rhode Island |
| Fate: | Scrapped March 29, 1994 |
| Career (Pakistan) |  |
| Acquired: | January 31, 1989 |
| Out of service: | 1994 |
| Renamed: | Siaf (F-264) |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Garcia class frigate (Formerly destroyer escort) |
| Displacement: | 2,624 tons (light) |
| Length: | 414 feet 6 inches |
| Beam: | 44 feet 1 inch |
| Draught: | 24 feet 6 inches |
| Speed: | 27 knots |
| Complement: | 16 officers 231 enlisted |
| Armament: | 2 x 5"/38 Mk 30(2x1) 1 8-tube ASROC Mk16 launcher (16 missiles) 6 x 12.75 in (324mm) Mk 32 (2x3) torpedo tubes, Mk 46 torpedoes 2 x MK 37 torpedo tubes (fixed, stern) |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 x SH-2F Seasprite LAMPS I |
USS Garcia (FF-1040) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer escort ships, later reclassified as frigates, in the United States Navy. She was named for Private Fernando Luis Garcia.
Laid down on October 16, 1962 by Bethlehem Steel of San Francisco, California, Garcia was launched on October 31, 1963 and commissioned on December 21, 1964. Originally designated DE-1040, she was redesignated FF-1040 in 1975 as part of the Navy's 1975 ship reclassification.
She served in the Pacific Fleet and was homeported in Newport, Rhode Island.
Following decommissioning on January 31, 1989, she was transferred to Pakistan on the same day. Renamed Saif, she was returned to the United States on January 13, 1994 and sold for scrap on March 29, 1994.
- K. Jack Bauer and Stephen S. Roberts, “Register of Ships of the U. S. Navy, 1775-1990,” p.243.
- Naval Institute “Proceedings,” May 1995, pp.219, 220.
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. (See Also: [1])
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
- USS Garcia on NavSource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive
- Photo of Garcia
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