What’s Wrong With This Picture?
2009 July 18
The Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate USS Halyburton (FFG 40) breaks formation during a pass and review exercise with the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69).
Note the caption via Navy News Service. Certainly not a Perry class frigate. An Italian warship? Probably of MEKO design.
The gun is 1 00mm and a Vulcan is highly visible as well. That cannot be an Italian navy ship.
It’s a Portuguese Vasco de Gama class frigate.
Sven is absolutely correct, it’s the NRP Corte Real. http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=57659
If you look at the hi-res version of the photograph above on the navy.mil site, you can see the pennant number is F332.
That was my second guess! Well done.
And it was a MEKO design. Specs here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama_class_frigate
Actually, the caption is correct. Halyburton is clearly 13 yards too close to the next ship and 1/4 degree offset to starboard.
it is typical of current Navy photo caption to be a) wrong and b) mentioning a ship which is hardly in or even not in the photo. MCSs need more knowledgeable editors and I have told the Navy.mil site that
Congrats on identifying the first ship in the picture, but if you actually read the caption you will find out that they are referring to the third ship…the Halyburton. Guess Ken Adams is the only other one that can read.
Well, I wasn’t going to argue this but since the gauntlet was thrown down, the only vessel I see breaking formation is the Italian frigate, and the only other vessel doing the same is another non-USN ship. Everyone else is following dutifully.
What Italian ship? There’s a Vasco de Gama class FF, a Dutch De Zeven Provinciën class DDG, a German Bremen class FF, a Spanish Almirante Juan de Borbón DDG and then a Perry FFG bringing up the rear. No Italians, this is probably why the US has so much blue on blue I guess lol
Sorry I meant Portugese!
13 yds too close and 1/4 degree offset to starboard. Heck, I’m just happy to see a picture of a USN warship not run aground!
On a related question, does anybody know when SWO’s got to be such lousy shipdrivers?
Good point, Matt! Thanks!