USS Stein (FF-1065)

USS Stein underway, March 1987
History
United States
Name:	USS Stein
Namesake:	Tony Stein
Ordered:	22 July 1964
Builder:	Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, Washington
Laid down:	1 June 1970
Launched:	19 December 1970
Acquired:	30 December 1971
Commissioned:	8 January 1972
Decommissioned:	19 March 1992
Struck:	11 January 1995
Identification:	FF-1065
Motto:	Indomitable
Fate:	Donated to Mexico
Mexico
Name:	Ignacio Allende
Namesake:	Ignacio Allende
Acquired:	August 1997
Commissioned:	1997
Identification:	F-211
General characteristics
Class and type:	Knox-class frigate
Displacement:	3,226 tons (4,207 full load)
Length:	438 ft (134 m)
Beam:	46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
Draft:	24 ft 9 in (7.54 m)
Propulsion:	2 × CE 1200psi boilers 1 Westinghouse geared turbine set 1 shaft, 35,000 shp (26,099 kW)
Speed:	over 27 knots (50 km/h)
Range:	4,500 nautical miles (8,330 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement:	18 officers, 267 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems:	AN/SPS-40 Air Search Radar AN/SPS-67 Surface Search Radar AN/SQS-26 Sonar AN/SQR-18 Towed array sonar system Mk68 Gun Fire Control System
Electronic warfare & decoys:	AN/SLQ-32 Electronics Warfare System
Armament:	1 × Mk-16 8 cell missile launcher for ASROC and Harpoon missiles 1 × Mk-42 5-inch/54 caliber gun Mark 46 torpedoes from four single tube launchers) 1 × Mk-25 BPDMS launcher for Sea Sparrow missiles
Aircraft carried:	1 × SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter

USS Stein (DE-1065) was a Knox-class destroyer escort, later redesignated as a frigate (FF-1065) in the United States Navy.

USS Stein was named after Tony Stein, the first Marine (of 22) to receive the Medal of Honor for action in the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Stein was laid down on 1 June 1970 at Seattle, Washington, by Lockheed Shipbuilding & Construction Co.; launched on 19 December 1970; sponsored by Mrs. Rose S. Parks; and commissioned on 8 January 1972, Comdr. Nepier V. Smith in command.

Stein was decommissioned on 19 March 1992 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 11 January 1995. She was subsequently transferred to the Mexican Navy and renamed the Armada República Mexicana Ignacio Allende, abbreviated ARM Allende.

The ocean escort spent another eight weeks at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and completed fitting-out. She conducted trials, then got underway in early March and arrived at her home port, San Diego, on 17 March. Two weeks later, she headed south along the coast of Mexico and South America on her shakedown cruise. Stein returned to San Diego in May and, late the following month, commenced post-shakedown repairs and modifications at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. On 8 December, she completed yard work and began intensive preparations for her first deployment to the western Pacific.

She departed San Diego Bay in mid-April 1973 and stopped at Midway and Guam, before entering Subic Bay in the Philippines on 19 May 1973. She operated with the 7th Fleet until the end of August, when she cleared the area for a visit to Australia and New Zealand before returning to the west coast. Stein called at Manus Island; Townsville, Australia; and Auckland, New Zealand, in September and returned to Australia, at Sydney, in October. On her way back to the United States, the escort ship stopped off at Suva, Pago Pago, and Pearl Harbor before reaching San Diego on 1 November.