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Guided Missile Frigate
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FFG 9
- USS Wadsworth
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Type,
Class:
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Guided Missile Frigate; Oliver Hazard Perry - class
(short hull)
planned and
ordered as PF 111; reclassified and built as FFG 9 |
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Builder:
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Todd Pacific
Shipyard, San Pedro, California, USA |
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STATUS:
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Awarded:
February 27,
1976 Laid
down: July 13, 1977 Launched: July 29, 1978 Commissioned: February 28, 1980 Decommissioned: June 28, 2002 Fate: stricken July 23, 2002 transferred
to Poland as Grant Aid on June 28, 2002 renamed
ORP General Thadeuz Kosciusko (F 273); in service in Polish Navy |
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Homeport:
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Namesake:
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Named
after and in honor of Commodore Alexander Scammel Wadsworth (1790 - 1851) >
see history, below; |
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Ship's
Motto:
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FOR ONE'S COUNTRY |
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Technical Data:
(Measures, Propulsion, Armament, Aviation, etc.)
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see: INFO
> Oliver Hazard Perry - class Guided Missile Frigate |
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Alexander Scammel Wadsworth |
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Namesake & History: |
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Commodore
Alexander Scammel Wadsworth (1790 – April 5, 1851): |
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Alexander Scammel Wadsworth was born in 1790 at Portland, Maine. He was
appointed a midshipman on 2 April 1804 and was promoted to lieutenant on 21
April 1810. Lt. Wadsworth was the first lieutenant on board Constitution during that famous
frigate's successful engagement with Guerriere in the War of 1812.
For this action, he received a silver medal and was included in the vote of
thanks received by the commanding officer, Isaac Hull, and his officers.
Wadsworth later served as first
lieutenant of the
corvette Adams during that ship's cruise in 1814 when she captured 10 prizes. Promoted to master-commandant on 27 April 1816 for his services during the
war, Wadsworth commanded the brig Prometheus in the Mediterranean Squadron
after the
Algerian War in 1816 and 1817 and later commanded the sloop John
Adams. Under Wadsworth, John Adams conducted cruises in the
West Indies in 1818 and 1819, and 1821 and 1822 for the suppression of
piracy. Promoted to captain on 3 March 1825, he commanded frigate Constellation in
the Mediterranean Squadron from 1829 to 1832. Wadsworth was commodore commanding the Pacific
Squadron from 1834 to 1836, a member of the Board of Navy Commissioners from 1837 to 1840, and Inspector of
Ordnance from 1841 to 1850. Commodore Wadsworth died at Washington, D.C., on 5 April 1851. |
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USS
Wadsworth (FFG 9): |
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FFG 9
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