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History
USS BradleyUnited States
NameBradley
Laid down17 January 1963
Launched26 March 1964
Sponsored bySue Worthington Bradley
Commissioned15 May 1965
Decommissioned30 September 1988
IdentificationFF-1041
FateTransferred to Brazil
USS BradleyBrazil
NamePernambuco
NamesakePernambuco
Commissioned25 September 1989
Decommissioned11 March 2004
IdentificationD 30
FateScrapped
General characteristics
Class and typeGarcia-class frigate
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 Westinghouse 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
  • AN/SPS-40 air search radar
  • AN/SPS-10 surface search radar
  • AN/SQS-26 bow mounted sonar
Armament
  • 2 × single 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal. Mk 30 guns
  • 1 × 8-tube RUR-5 ASROC Mk114 launcher (16 missiles)
  • 2 × triple 12.75 in (324 mm) Mk 32 torpedo tubes, Mk 46 torpedoes
  • 2 × MK 37 torpedo tubes (fixed, stern) (removed later)
Aircraft carriedGyrodyne QH-50 (planned) / SH-2 LAMPS

USS Bradley (FF-1041) was the second of ten 2,620-ton Garcia-class destroyer escorts, later reclassified as frigates, in the United States Navy. She was named for Captain Willis Winter Bradley Jr. She was later sold into the Brazilian Navy as Pernambuco (D 30).

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