USS Albert David

USS Albert David (FF-1050)
History
United States
Name	Albert David
Namesake	Albert David
Ordered	20 March 1963
Builder	Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company
Laid down	29 April 1964
Launched	19 December 1964
Acquired	11 October 1968
Commissioned	19 October 1968
Decommissioned	28 September 1988
Stricken	24 January 2001
Nickname(s)	The Vigilant Shepherd, No Motto
Honours and awards	Combat Action Ribbon, Meritorious Unit Citation
Fate	Initially leased, then sold to Brazil 24 January 2001
Brazil
Name	Pará
Namesake	Pará
Acquired	18 September 1989
Decommissioned	12 November 2008[1]
Identification	D27
Fate	Scrapped, 2015
General characteristics
Class and type	Garcia-class frigate
Displacement	2,624 tons (light) 3,400 tons full
Length	414 ft 6 in (126.34 m)
Beam	44 ft 1 in (13.44 m)
Draft	24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Propulsion	2 Foster-Wheeler boilers, 1 steam turbine, 35,000 shp (26,000 kW), single screw
Speed	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Range	4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 20 knots (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 ASROC Mk16 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 carried	Gyrodyne QH-50 (planned) / SH-2 LAMPS

USS Albert David (FF-1050) was a Garcia-class destroyer escort, later reclassified as a frigate, in the United States Navy. She was named for Lieutenant Albert David, a Medal of Honor recipient. His was the only Medal of Honor awarded to a member of the Navy in the Atlantic Theater of Operations in World War II. Laid down on 28 April 1964 and commissioned on 19 October 1968, Albert David served in the Pacific, including performing gunfire support operations in Vietnam during the 1970s. She was briefly deployed to the Arabian Sea in September and October 1982. On 18 September 1989 she was leased to the Brazilian Navy, and then sold to Brazil where she served as the destroyer Pará (D 27) until 12 November 2008 when she was decommissioned and put in reserve. She appears to have been scrapped as of 2015.^[2]