USS
Brinkly Bass (DD-887)
Gearing Class Destroyer
- Displacement 3460 Tons (Full),
Dimensions, 390' 6"(oa) x 40' 10" x 14'
4" (Max)
- Armament 6 x 5"/38AA (3x2), 12 x 40mm AA, 11 x
20mm AA, 10 x 21"
tt.(2x5).
- Machinery, 60,000 SHP; General Electric Geared
Turbines, 2 screws
- Speed, 36.8 Knots, Range 4500 NM@ 20 Knots
- Crew 336
- Laid down by Federal Shipbuilding, Newark NJ.
April 25 1945.
- Launched November 24 1945 and commissioned July
12 1946.
- Decommissioned (?).
- Stricken October 1 1979.
- Sold to Taiwan December 17 1980, renamed ROCS Yun
Yang.
- Reclassified as Guided Missile Destroyer DDG-927
- Decommissioned December 16 2003.
- Fate Sunk by Hai Hu (SS-794) as a target
off Ping Tung
0900
September 6 2005.
My Duties with USS
Brinkly Bass
Sept 1971 -
Jul 1972
In
Sep 1971 USS Brinkly Bass (DD 887) had replaced the USS Ulhmann
(DD-687) as reserve ship in
Tacoma WA. and I continued to drill every third weekend.
Fall of 1971 I was advanced
to STG2.
In 1972 a new reserve ship,
an MSO, was assigned to Tacoma. The
PCO was
filling out the SelRes crew and invited me to join. I knew
nothing of mine sweeping, but it sounded interesting.
May 1972 I
transfered to the SelRes crew of USS
Implicit (MSO-455)
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