FAHRION FFG 22

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Oliver Hazard Perry Class Guided Missile Frigate Keel Laid 1 December 1978 - Launched 24 August 1979 USS FAHRION FFG-22 Commissioned 16 January 1982 Assigned to Naval Reserve Force at Charleston SC 30 September 1988 Decommissioned 31 March 1998 SHARM EL-SHEIKH F-901 Stricken and transferred as Grant Aid to Egypt 31 March 1998

Naval Covers

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1. USS Fahrion FFG-22 Covers Page 1    (1988-1998)

 

Postmarks

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

 

Locy Type FDC "Paid"

1982-01-16

Commissioning. "Postal Clerk went AWOL, leaving the postal equipment locked in a safe to which no one else had the combination. This "PAID" marking and an undated Type 9-1 that had arrived after the clerk left were the only devices that the Postal Officer could find to use on commissioning covers." (USCS Postmark Catalog)

 

Locy Type FDC 9-1(n+u) (USN,USS)

1982-01-16

Commissioning. "Postal Clerk went AWOL, leaving the postal equipment locked in a safe to which no one else had the combination. This "PAID" marking and an undated Type 9-1 that had arrived after the clerk left were the only devices that the Postal Officer could find to use on commissioning covers." (USCS Postmark Catalog)

 

Locy Type 2-1(n+)(USN,USS) (1982)

1982-05-01

Ships cachet with additional markings by George H Wilson. Port Visit to Port Everglades, FL. From the Bob Govern collection.

 

Locy Type 2-1(n+)(USN,USS) (1995)

1995-11-01

Note:

 

Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USN,USS) (1982)

1982-05-01

Ships cachet with additional markings by George H Wilson. Port Visit to Port Everglades, FL. From the Bob Govern collection.

 

Locy Type LDC 2-1(n+)(USN,USS)

1998-03-31

Decommissioning, cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

Other Information

USS FAHRION earned the Joint Meritorious Unit Award Ribbon, the Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Ribbon, the Navy E Ribbon (3 awards), the National Defense Service Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2 awards), the Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon and the Coast Guard Special Operations Service Ribbon. during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - Admiral Frank George Fahrion (17 April 1894 - 16 January 1970).
During World War II, Fahrion was the Destroyer Screen Commander for the "YORKTOWN" carrier task force in the early Central Pacific raids on the Gilbert Islands. Commander of the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport, Rhode Island, February 1943 - July 1944. Commanding Officer of Battleship USS North Carolina BB-55 during Fleet raids from the Philippines to Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Commander Cruiser Division Four throughout the Okinawa Campaign. Organizer and Director of the target and salvage units of the Joint Task Force One during "Operation Crossroads," the atomic bomb tests of July 1946 at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Inspector General Pacific and U.S. Pacific Fleet: Commander Destroyers, U.S. Pacific Fleet (1946-1948), and Superintendent of the Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D.C. In July 1950, he assumed command of the Destroyer Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, and was Commander Amphibious Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, from January 1952 until his retirement on 1 May 1956. Admiral Fahrion was awarded The Legion of Merit with 3 Gold Stars and 2 Bronze Stars.

The ships sponsor was Mrs. Kathleen Dwyer Fahrion, Adm. Fahrion's widow.

 

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