USS Sarsfield
22°59′18.7980″N 120°09′22.8168″E / 22.988555000°N 120.156338000°E
![]() USS Sarsfield underway on 23 July 1973
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Name | Sarsfield |
Namesake | Eugene S. Sarsfield |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 15 January 1945 |
Launched | 27 May 1945 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Eugene S. Sarsfield |
Commissioned | 31 July 1945 |
Decommissioned | 1 October 1977 |
Stricken | 1 October 1977 |
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Honors and awards | See Awards |
Fate | Transferred to Taiwan, 1 October 1977 |
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Namesake | Te Yang |
Acquired | 1 October 1977 |
Commissioned | January 1978 |
Identification | Hull number: DD-925 |
Reclassified | DDG-925, December 1989 |
Decommissioned | 1 April 2005 |
Status | Museum ship at Anping Port since 22 January 2009 |
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Class and type | Gearing-class destroyer |
Displacement | 3,460 long tons (3,516 t) full |
Length | 390 ft 6 in (119.02 m) |
Beam | 40 ft 10 in (12.45 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) |
Propulsion | 2 General Electric geared turbines, 2 shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW) |
Speed | 36.8 knots (68.2 km/h; 42.3 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 367 |
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USS Sarsfield (DD-837), was a
Namesake
Eugene S. Sarsfield was born on 19 April 1902 in
Given command of
On 10 July 1943 during the
Construction and career
Sarsfield was
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After the ship's fitting-out was complete, she sailed on 24 August, for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and shakedown training. She returned to Boston on 30 September and, after postshakedown alterations, got underway, on 25 October, for New York City and the Navy Day celebration. Following her stay at New York, she participated in training exercises in the Chesapeake Bay-Virginia Capes area until 13 December, when she entered the Brooklyn Navy Yard for installation of some experimental equipment.
On 1 February 1946, Sarsfield sailed from New York bound for
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In addition to the work she did for the Operational Development Force, Sarsfield also served the
In 1956, she embarked VIPs for
Project Mercury
This employment, testing antisubmarine detection and destruction devices, continued until January 1961, when she was deployed, with shore bombardment responsibilities, to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Later that year, in June, Caribbean unrest again required the Navy to deploy ships. Sarsfield cruised off the coast of Hispaniola. In September 1961, Sarsfield took station in the Atlantic as a recovery ship for Project Mercury, the manned space flight program.
In January 1962, she again took station for Project Mercury, this time off the coast of Africa. In August, she entered Boston Naval Shipyard for almost a year of
The overhaul was completed on 30 January 1967, and by 7 February, she was back in Key West. Sarsfield spent the remainder of the month engaged in refresher training out of Guantanamo Bay. In April, she joined the aircraft carrier
In early 1968, she operated off the Virginia Capes and in the Caribbean. In July 1968, she deployed to the
Sarsfield remained in the Western Hemisphere for all of 1969 and 1970. During the first seven months of 1969, she resumed Caribbean and Atlantic operations. On 28 July, she commenced UNITAS X, an exercise involving elements of the United States, Brazilian, Argentine, Colombian, Chilean, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Venezuelan, and Uruguayan navies. In December, upon the completion of this exercise, during which she visited ports in all the countries named, Sarsfield returned to Mayport to prepare for overhaul.
From January to June 1970, she was at Charleston, South Carolina, undergoing overhaul. In June, she commenced eight weeks of refresher training out of Guantanamo Bay, and upon completing it, returned to local operations out of Mayport for the rest of the year.
In January 1971, Sarsfield again deployed to the Middle East, entering the Indian Ocean in February. Tensions were rising in the region; the
in December. By 29 June, she was back at Mayport and resumed normal operations for the rest of 1971 and for the first three months of 1972.Vietnam War
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On 13 April 1972, she got underway for an entirely different deployment. Proceeding via the
She entered San Diego on 13 October, transited the Panama Canal on 21 October, and reentered Mayport on 25 October. Upon her return, she resumed local operations out of Mayport. This employment continued until 29 May 1973, when she weighed anchor to join the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean.
She sailed with the 6th Fleet until 22 September, when she passed through the
On 18 November, she was ordered to rejoin John F. Kennedy for the voyage back to the United States. She arrived at Mayport on 1 December and spent the rest of 1973 in a standdown and leave status. She remained in port at Mayport, Florida until May 1974 at which time she resumed Atlantic seaboard operations.
On 14 June 1974, in protest of perceived racism on the part of the command, nearly all of the ship's minority sailors occupied the fantail and refused orders to handle lines while Sarsfield was attempting a difficult mooring in an off-setting wind at the Charleston Naval Station. After being surrounded by the ship's Master-at-Arms force and being individually ordered by the Executive Officer, most of the demonstrating sailors returned to their quarters. Seven of them, however, refused to leave the quarterdeck despite direct orders to do so, and eventually left the ship without authority to do so. The seven sailors were eventually apprehended and originally charged with, among other things, mutiny. They were all eventually convicted of lesser charges in a joint General Courts Martial at NAS Jacksonville, Florida.
In the fall of 1974, Sarsfield departed Mayport, Florida to participate in Northern Merger with NATO units, and enjoyed port visits in Plymouth, England and Edinburgh, Scotland, as well as Lubeck, West Germany.
Sarsfield deployed on a Mediterranean cruise from 27 July 1975 to 27 January 1976, and enjoyed port visits in Gibraltar, BCC, Barcelona, Valencia, Rota and Algeciras, Spain, Siracusa and Taormina, Sicily, Naples, Italy, Palma, Mallorca, as well as Athens, and after transiting the Bosporus and Dardanelles, steamed in company with USS Belknap in the Black Sea.
The year 1976 saw gunnery practice in
The ship served in the Republic of China Navy as ROCS Te Yang (DD-925).
Arrived in Taiwan in January 1978, via the
In December 1989, the Wu-Chin III modification project was carried out, which was later changed from DD-925 to DDG-925, which means missile destroyer.[2]
In December 1994, the Hsiung Feng II anti-ship missile was installed.[2]
In October 1997, she was incorporated into the 131 fleet.[2]
Te Yang was decommissioned on 1 April 2005 at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.[2]
On 22 January 2009, the ship was towed to the
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Te Yang on 12 November 2012
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Aerial view of Te Yang on 2 July 2017
Awards
Sarsfield earned one
References
- ^ "Rocketships".
- ^ a b c d e "安平定情碼頭 德陽艦園區". www.teyang925.com.tw. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
- ^ http://mimg47.pixnet.net/blog/post/4287007-%E3%80%90%E5%8F%B0%E5%8D%97%E6%99%AF%E9%BB%9E%E3%80%91%E5%AE%89%E5%B9%B3%EF%BC%8E%E5%BE%B7%E9%99%BD%E8%BB%8D%E8%89%A6%E5%8D%9A%E7%89%A9%E9%A4%A8%EF%BC%9A%E7%99%BB%E8%89%A6%E5%8F%83 Archived 2017-05-20 at the Wayback Machine . Many pictures and information from a local Taiwanese. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entries can be found here and here.
External links
- Photo gallery of USS Sarsfield at NavSource Naval History