BRADLEY FF 1041

Ship Name and Designation History

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Garcia Class Destroyer Escort Keel Laid 17 January 1963 - Launched 26 March 1964 USS BRADLEY DE-1041 Commissioned 15 May 1965 USS BRADLEY FF-1041 Reclassified Frigate (FF) 30 June 1975 Decommissioned 9 September 1988 CT PERNAMBUCO D-30 (Brazilian Naval Service) Leased to Brazil 15 April 1989 and renamed Sold to Brazil 24 January 2001 Decommissioned 11 March 2004 and placed in reserve Multiple auctions in 2012-13 failed to secure a bid Fate unknown

 

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1. USS Bradley DE-1041 / FF-1041 Covers Page 1     (1964-1984)

 

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

Locy Type FDC 2(n+) (USS)

[1965]-05-15

DE-1041. First Day in Commission, cachet by Morris W. Beck. Courtesy of the Bob Govern collection.

 

Locy Type 2(n+) (USS)

1967-01-19

DE-1041

 

Locy Type 2(n+) (USS)

1968-10-27

DE-1041. Navy Day, cachet by E-F Cachets

 

Locy Type 2t(n+u)

1975-10-13

FF-1041

 

Locy Type 2-1(n+) (D2,USS)

1977-07-15

FF-1041. Welcome to Singapore R/S cachet

 

Locy Type 2-1(n+) (D2,USS)

1979-07-16

FF-1041. Sailor's mail.

 

Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS)

1982-06-11

FF-1041

 

Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS)

1984-10-09

FF-1041

 

Other Information

USS BRADLEY earned the Navy Battle E Ribbon, the Navy Expeditionary Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal (w/ 6 campaign stars), the Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon (12 awards) and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - Captain Willis Winter Bradley, Jr., USN (28 June 1884 - 27 August 1954)
Bradley was appointed to the Naval Academy in 1903. He graduated on 12 September 1906 and went to sea in USS VIRGINIA BB-13. After two years at sea as a Passed Midshipman, he received his commission as an Ensign on 13 September 1908. Successively, Bradley served in USS CULGOA AF-3 from the fall of 1908 to October 1910, helped to fit out and commission USS PERKINS DD-26, and served in her until March of 1911. From then until September of 1912, he saw duty, first in the Transport USS HANCOCK AP-3 and then in USS SOUTH CAROLINA BB-26. Next, he commanded BIDDLE (Torpedo Boat No. 26) and the Reserve Torpedo Group at Annapolis, Md Beginning in September 1913, Bradley studied ordnance and explosives at the Naval Postgraduate School in Annapolis, Md., and then at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He continued his studies at the Naval Proving Ground in Indian Head, Md., at the Bausch & Lomb, and at the Midvale Steel Co. in Pittsburgh, Pa. In July 1915, Bradley returned to sea in command of STEWART (Destroyer No. 13). That December, he was transferred to command of HULL (Destroyer No. 7) and of the Reserve Torpedo Division, Pacific Fleet. After service in USS SAN DIEGO ACR-6 between September 1916 and February 1917, Bradley became Gunnery Officer in USS PITTSBURGH CA-4. In that capacity, he earned the Medal of Honor on 23 July 1917 during a powder explosion in one of the ship's casemates. Though temporarily stunned, he entered the compartment, saved a man's life, and then reentered the casemate to extinguish burning gunpowder. Bradley moved ashore again in January 1918 to head the Explosives, Fuses, and Primers Section of the Bureau of Ordnance. From there, he went to the Naval Torpedo Station in Keyport, Wash., in August 1919 to serve as a naval inspector. Returning to sea in June 1920, Bradley served as Gunnery Officer in USS TEXAS BB-35 until May 1921. At that time, he reported to the Mare Island Navy Yard to assist in fitting out and commissioning USS CALIFORNIA BB-44. After the battleship went into commission on 10 August, he served as her Gunnery Officer. Bradley returned to Keyport in May 1922 for two years of duty at the Naval Torpedo Station as the Naval Inspector in Charge. From July 1924 to November 1926, he commanded USS GOLD STAR AK-12, the Station Ship at Guam in the Mariana Islands. Between late 1926 and the middle of 1929, Bradley served in the Naval Reserve Section in the Bureau of Navigation. Following that tour of duty, he became governor of Guam in June 1929. Bradley resumed sea duty in July 1931 in command of USS BRIDGE AF-1. Two years later, he became Captain of the Yard at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard. After six months, however, he was transferred to command of USS PORTLAND CA-33. That assignment lasted until June 1937 at which time he was reassigned to the Naval War College as a student. After a year of duty with the Pacific coast section of the Board of Inspection and Survey beginning in May 1938, Capt. Bradley commanded Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 31, Battle Force, based in San Diego for a year. At the conclusion of that assignment, he resumed duty with the Board of Inspection and Survey on the west coast. He continued in that billet through the end of World War II and until his retirement on August 1 1946. Between 1947 and 1949, Bradley represented California’s 18th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. He died at Santa Barbara, Calif., on 27 August 1954.

The ships sponsor was Sue Worthington Bradley, the American First Lady of Guam from 1929 to 1931. She was the wife of naval Governor of Guam Willis W. Bradley.

 

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