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USS BRADLEY was the second ship in the GARCIA - class of Frigates. Commissioned as a Destroyer Escort, the BRADLEY was redesignated as FF 1041 on June 30, 1975. Decommissioned on September 9, 1988, the BRADLEY was leased to Brazil on April 15, 1989. There, the ship was recommissioned as PERNAMBUCO. On January 24, 2001, Brazil officially purchased the BRADLEY and the ship was stricken from the Navy list.
| General Characteristics: | Awarded: June 22, 1961 |
| Keel laid: January 17, 1963 | |
| Launched: March 26, 1964 | |
| Commissioned: May 15, 1965 | |
| Decommissioned: September 30, 1988 | |
| Builder: Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco, Calif. | |
| Propulsion system: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000shp; 1 shaft | |
| Length: 414.4 feet (126.3 meters) | |
| Beam: 44.3 feet (13.5 meters) | |
| Draft: 25.9 feet (7.9 meters) | |
| Displacement: approx. 3,500 tons full load | |
| Speed: 27 knots | |
| Armament: one Mk-16 missile launcher for ASROC missiles, two Mk-30 5-inch/38 caliber guns, | |
| Aircraft: one | |
| Crew: 16 officers, 231 enlisted |
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This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS BRADLEY. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.
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Accidents aboard USS BRADLEY:
| Date | Where | Events |
|---|---|---|
| January 4, 1980 | Terminal Island, Los Angeles, Calif. | The USS PECOS (AO 65) collides with the moored USS BRADLEY, injuring one, and causing minor damage to the BRADLEY and a two-foot hole in the PECOS. |
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History of USS BRADLEY:
USS BRADLEY was built at San Francisco, California, and commissioned in May 1965. Her first deployment to the Westen Pacific between July and December 1966 included four months of gunfire support along the coast of South Vietnam and carrier escort duty in the Gulf of Tonkin. In February 1967 BRADLEY received the prototype destroyer installation of the Sea Sparrow Basic Point Defense Missile System (BPDMS). After intensive trials between May and September, the system was removed in September.
BRADLEY commenced her second deployment to Southeast Asia in December 1967 but was diverted to the Sea of Japan in response to the North Korean capture of USS PUEBLO (AGER 2). In March she resumed carrier escort and gunfire support duties off South Vietnam. After a final tour on the gun line in June, during which she fired 3,247 rounds in 10 days from her two 5"/38 guns, she returned to San Diego in July 1968. Her first regular overhaul between October 1968 and May 1969 featured a major upgrade to her SQS-26 sonar and extensive work on her two tempermental pressure-fired boilers. BRADLEY's third deployment featured a gun line tour in January 1970, surveillance of the Soviet Navy's worldwide "Okean" exercise in April, and more carrier escort and gunfire support duty lasting into June. During the next five years BRADLEY conducted three additional deployments to Southeast Asia, interrupted by a second regular overhaul in 1971-72.
In June 1975 BRADLEY began a year-long overhaul which included the enlargement of her helicopter hangar. In July 1975 she was reclassifed from escort ship (DE) to frigate (FF). After trials in mid 1976, BRADLEY conducted two more deployments, each of which included lengthy operations in the Indian Ocean, before entering the shipyard in mid-1979 for another one year overhaul. Repeating this pattern, she conducted another two deployments, this time ranging between Korea and Malaysia, before starting another year-long overhaul in mid-1983, primarily to remedy boiler problems. The ship made one more Western Pacific deployment between mid-1986 and January 1987 and a Northern Pacific cruise in May-June 1988 before decommissioning in September 1988.
In September 1989 BRADLEY was leased to Brazil at San Diego and became the destroyer PERNAMBUCO (D 30). She was stricken from the U. S. Navy and sold outright to Brazil in January 2001.
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