USS Vreeland (FF-1068)
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USS Vreeland (FF-1068)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Vreeland (DE-1068) |
| Namesake: | Charles E. Vreeland |
| Ordered: | 22 July 1964 |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana |
| Yard number: | 1073 |
| Laid down: | 20 March 1968 |
| Launched: | 14 June 1969 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Jamie L. Whitten |
| Acquired: | 30 May 1970 |
| Commissioned: | 13 June 1970 |
| Reclassified: | FF-1068, 1 July 1975 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 June 1992 |
| Motto: | Quo fas et Gloria Ducunt (English: Where duty and glory lead) |
| Fate: | Transferred to Greece, 30 June 1992 |
| Struck: | 11 January 1995 |
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 Greece
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| Name: | Macedonia (F458) |
| Acquired: | 30 June 1992 |
| Decommissioned: | January 1999 |
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| Class and type: | Knox-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 3,208 tons (4,189 full load) |
| Length: | 438 ft (133.5 m) |
| Beam: | 46 ft 9 in (14.25 m) |
| Draft: | 24 ft 9 in (7.6 m) |
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| Speed: | over 27 knots (50 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 4,500 nautical miles @ 20 knots (8,300 km @ 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 18 officers, 267 enlisted |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
AN/SLQ-32 Electronics Warfare System |
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| Aircraft carried: | one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter |
USS Vreeland (FF-1068) was a Knox-class frigate of the United States Navy. The ship was named for Rear Admiral Charles E. Vreeland (1852–1916).
Vreeland (DE-1068) was laid down on 20 March 1968 by the Avondale Shipyard at Westwego, La.; launched on 16 June 1969; sponsored by Mrs. Jamie L. Whitten, wife of the Congressman representing Mississippi's 2nd Congressional district; and commissioned at Charleston, S.C., on 13 June 1970, Comdr. David R. Stefferud in command.
After fitting out at Charleston and shakedown training in the West Indies, Vreeland returned to Charleston to join Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 4. She completed repairs in February 1971 and final contract trials in March and then began preparations for her first deployment to the Mediterranean area. The warship departed Charleston on 15 April and arrived in Rota, Spain, on the 25th. During the next six months, she steamed the length and breadth of the "middle sea" as a unit of the 6th Fleet. She visited numerous ports and participated in a host of exercises with American and Allied naval forces. She concluded that tour of duty at Gibraltar on 8 October when she changed operational control back to the 2d Fleet and headed home. The warship arrived in Charleston on the 16th and resumed 2d Fleet operations out of Charleston.
In the summer of 1972, the ship began preparations for another cruise in the Mediterranean Sea. That deployment, however, proved different than the previous one. Rather than deploying for six months and then returning home to Charleston, Vreeland received orders changing her home port to Athens. That assignment lasted for the next three years rather than the normal six months and included the relocation of Vreeland dependents to Athens—all as a part of the Navy's forward deployment program. During those three years, she performed the normal duties of a unit of the 6th Fleet, visiting ports, conducting exercises, and performing surveillance of Soviet ships operating in the Mediterranean.
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