Name USS Garcia Laid down 16 October 1962 Commissioned 21 December 1964 Launched 31 October 1963 Displacement 2.38 million kg | Awarded 22 June 1961 Acquired 3 December 1964 Construction started 16 October 1962 Length 126 m Draft 7.47 m | |
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Sponsored by Daisy Garcia de Alvarez Builders Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco | ||
USS Garcia (FF-1040) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer escort ships, later reclassified as frigates, in the United States Navy. She was named for U.S. Marine Private First Class Fernando Luis Garcia,The First Puerto Rican Medal of Honor Recipient.
Laid down on 16 October 1962 by Bethlehem Steel of San Francisco, California, Garcia was launched on 31 October 1963 and commissioned on 21 December 1964. Originally designated DE-1040, she was redesignated FF-1040 in 1975 as part of the Navy's 1975 ship reclassification.
She served in the Atlantic Fleet and was homeported in Charleston, South Carolina.
Following her decommissioning on 31 January 1989, she was transferred to Pakistan on the same day. Renamed Saif, she was returned to the United States on 13 January 1994 and was then sold for scrap on 29 March 1994.