USS Sample

History
United States
Name	Sample
Namesake	William Sample
Ordered	20 March 1963
Builder	Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, Washington
Laid down	19 July 1963
Launched	28 April 1964
Acquired	15 March 1968
Commissioned	23 March 1968
Decommissioned	23 September 1988
Stricken	24 January 2001
Honors and awards	Five campaign stars for Vietnam War service
Fate	Leased to Brazil, 1989. Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP), transferred, Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) Section 516, Southern Region Amendment, 24 January 2001
Brazil
Name	Parana
Acquired	15 April 1989 via lease
Out of service	November 2004
Identification	D29
Fate	Sold November 2004 to Arusha Shipping, Ltd for scrap.
General characteristics
Class and type	Garcia-class frigate
Displacement	2,624 tons (light)
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, single screw
Speed	27 knots
Range	4,000 nautical miles (7,000 km) at 20 knots (40 km/h)
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 Sample (FF-1048) was a frigate in the US Navy and the seventh in its class named for William Dodge Sample (9 March 1898 – 2 October 1945) who was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and an Escort Carrier Division commander in World War II. He was the youngest rear admiral in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It was laid down in 1963 and decommissioned in 1988, then transferred to Brazil in 1989.