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) replaced the USS Ulhmann (DD-687) as reserve
ship in Tacoma WA. and I
continued to drill every third weekend.
Sept 1971 I was advanced to STG2.
In the spring of 1972 a new
reserve ship, an MSO, was assigned to Tacoma. The PCO (the SelRes
Commanding Officer) was filling out the SelRes crew and invited me to
join. I knew nothing of mine sweeping sonar, but it sounded
interesting.
May 1972 I transfered to the SelRes crew of USS Implicit (MSO-455).
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