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USS Brumby

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History
United States
NameUSS Brumby
NamesakeFrank H. Brumby
Awarded3 January 1962
BuilderAvondale Shipyards
Laid down1 August 1963
Launched6 June 1964
Acquired26 July 1965
Commissioned5 August 1965
Decommissioned31 March 1989
ReclassifiedFrigate 30 June 1975
Stricken1 July 1994
Identification
  • DE-1044 (1965)
  • FF-1044 (1975)
FateDisposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 28 September 1994
General characteristics
Class and typeTemplate:Sclass-
Displacement2,624 tons (light)
Length414 ft 6 in (126.34 m)
Beam44 ft 1 in (13.44 m)
Draft24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Propulsion2 Foster-Wheeler boilers, 1 steam turbine, 35,000 shp (26,000 kW), single screw
Speed27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Range4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement
  • 16 officers
  • 231 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems
Armament
Aircraft carriedGyrodyne QH-50 (planned) / SH-2 LAMPS

USS Brumby (FF-1044) was a Template:Sclass- destroyer escort (and later a frigate) in the US Navy. She was named after Admiral Frank H. Brumby.

Brumby was built in the early 1960s, and during the Vietnam War served in the Atlantic. She was launched in 1963 and co-sponsored by Adm. Brumby's granddaughters, Misses Muriel Tuckerman Fitzgerald and Cornelia Truxtun Fitzgerald.

On 31 March 1989 Brumby was decommissioned and leased to the Pakistan Navy the same day, where she was commissioned as Harbah. However, following Pakistan's refusal to halt its nuclear weapons program, the lease was cancelled in 1994. She was returned to United States custody on 9 September 1994 and stricken from the Navy Register the same day.

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