Guided Missile Frigate

FFG 25  -  USS Copeland

 

 

FFG-25 USS Copeland patch crest insignia

FFG-25 USS Copeland Oliver Hazard Perry class guided missile frigate

Type, Class:

 

Guided Missile Frigate; Oliver Hazard Perry – class (short hull);

planned and built as FFG 25;

Builder:

 

Todd Pacific Shipyard, San Pedro, California, USA

STATUS:

 

Awarded: February 28, 1977

Laid down: October 24, 1979

Launched: July 26, 1980

Commissioned: August 7, 1982

Decommissioned: September 18, 1996

 

Fate: stricken: September 18, 1996

transferred to Egypt (grant aid) on September 18, 1996

renamed ENS Mubarak (F-911); in service in Egyptian Navy

Homeport:

 

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Namesake:

 

Named after and in honor of Rear Admiral Robert Witcher Copeland (1910 - 1973)

> see history, below;

Ship's Motto:

 

FORCE FOR PEACE

Technical Data:

(Measures, Propulsion,

Armament, Aviation, etc.)

 

see: INFO > Oliver Hazard Perry - class Guided Missile Frigate

 

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USS Copeland FFG-25 Perry class guided missile frigate

 

FFG-25 USS Copeland Oliver Hazard Perry class guided missile frigate

 

USS Copeland FFG-25 Perry class guided missile frigate

 

FFG-25 USS Copeland Oliver Hazard Perry class guided missile frigate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Witcher Copeland

 

Robert Witcher Copeland Rear Admiral, US Navy

 

LCDR Robert Witcher Copeland receives the Navy Cross from RADM David LeBreton

LCDR Copeland receives the Navy Cross from Rear Admiral David M. LeBreton (1945)

 

 

Namesake & History:

Rear Admiral Robert Witcher Copeland (September 9, 1910 - August 25, 1973):

 

Robert Witcher Copeland was born at Tacoma, Washington, on 9 September 1910. Enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1929, he was commissioned as a Naval Reserve officer in 1935. Copeland practiced law from 1935 until 1940, when he was ordered to active duty during the Navy's pre-World War II expansion. During the War, he commanded USS Pawtucket (YT-7), USS Black Douglas (PYc-45), USS Wyman (DE-38) and USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413).

During the Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944, while commanding Samuel B. Roberts, Lieutenant Commander Copeland led his ship and crew in an attack on a greatly superior Japanese battleship and cruiser force. Though his ship was lost, this action helped defeat the Japanese counter-offensive against the Leyte invasion. For this, he was awarded the Navy Cross.

Following World War II, Copeland resumed his law career while remaining a member of the Naval Reserve, in which he rose to the rank of Rear Admiral. Robert W. Copeland died at Tacoma, Washington, on 25 August 1973.

 

USS Copeland (FFG 25):

 

FFG 25 history wanted

 

patches

 

USS Copeland FFG-25 patch crest insignia

 

 

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