USS Borie (DD-704)
USS Borie wearing camouflage paint, date and location unknown.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Borie |
Namesake | Adolph E. Borie |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company |
Laid down | 29 February 1944 |
Launched | 4 July 1944 |
Commissioned | 21 September 1944 |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1972 |
Stricken | 1 July 1972 |
Fate | To Argentina 1 July 1972 |
Argentina | |
Name | Hipólito Bouchard |
Namesake | Hippolyte de Bouchard |
Acquired | 1 July 1972 |
Decommissioned | 1984 |
Stricken | 1984 |
Identification | D-26 |
Fate | Broken up for scrap 1984 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,200 tons |
Length | 376 ft 6 in (114.76 m) |
Beam | 40 ft (12 m) |
Draft | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 34 kn (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 336 |
Armament |
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USS Borie (DD-704), an
Construction
Borie (DD-704) was
Service history
World War II
Borie joined the
Korean War
The damaged destroyer returned to
.In 1961 she completed her
Vietnam War and decommissioning
In February 1968, Borie began her
She was sold to the Argentine Navy and renamed Hipólito Bouchard (D-26) after the Argentine privateer, Hippolyte Bouchard and had four Exocet anti-ship missiles fitted in 1977–78.[2] ARA Bouchard saw action in the Falklands War, forming a part of the escort for the aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo during the initial Argentine invasion on 2 April 1982. On 26 April Bouchard and sister ship Piedra Buena formed the escort for the cruiser ARA General Belgrano when Belgrano set out from Ushuaia in response to the approaching British Task Force, and was present when on 2 May 1982, Belgrano was torpedoed and sunk.[3] In author Michael Rossiters' 'Sink the Belgrano', (Random House, London, 2009), it says Belgrano was unable to send any Mayday signal because of electrical failure; this and poor visibility meant the two escorting destroyers, (both also ex-United States Navy vessels), were unaware of the sinking until some hours later. A total of 323 men were killed. During the torpedo attack, the crew felt an impact which was believed to have been one of the three torpedoes fired from HMS Conqueror. They later found four cracks in the hull which were thought to have been a torpedoe striking at the end of its run.[4][5]
On the night of 17/18 May a helicopter was tracked by the radar of Bouchard, who sent a message to her sister ship
She was broken up for scrap in 1984.
Awards
Borie received three
Notes
- ^ "William Alexion". StoryCorps Archive. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ^ Gardiner & Chumbley 1995, p. 7
- ^ Burden et al 1986, pp. 179–182
- ISBN 9781848322158.
- ^ Sethia, Narendra (18 October 2000). "Hit by two torpedoes". The Guardian.
- ^ Mikado: la operación que no fue Archived 22 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- ISBN 1-84176-422-1
- ^ El Bouchard y el Fracaso de la Operación Británica Mikado by Eugenio L. Facchin y José L. Speroni (in Spanish)
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- Burden, Rodney A.; Draper, Michael I; Rough, Douglas A.; Smith, Colin R.; Wilton, David (1986). Falklands: The Air War. Twickenham, UK: British Aviation Research Group. ISBN 0-906339-05-7.
- Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen, eds. (1995). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7.
Further reading
- Facchin, Eugenio Luis (2013). Un buque, dos banderas, mil combates: Bouchard "D-26" (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina. ISBN 978-987-28586-0-5. Retrieved 1 October 2016.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - Facchin, Eugenio Luis (2022). The Untold Story of a Fighting Ship: One Ship, Two Flags, a Thousand Battles. Springer. S2CID 248111284.
External links
- navsource.org: USS Borie
- hazegray.org: USS Borie
- destroyers.org: USS Borie (DD-704) Archived 1 October 2005 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Spanish) Histarmar: Destructor A.R.A. "Bouchard" D-26 (Retrieved 2016-10-01)