Ainsworth (FF 1090) - Naval Cruise Book

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M- . -.,---fa - f 11- - t.4t11'l?iN9:I.,.fg-- ft- -,gg--ii-q,. '. 'S -WW-.. '-is -r ' Q rw- -- 1 A I va., ,..,JV VE -.ti fr oi st J, - 5'- ., - . . . , ib- -.ax f UNITED STATES SHIP AINSWORTH USS Ainsworth is named in honor of Vice Admiral Walden Lee Ainsworth, U.S. Navy, and is the first ship ever to bear the name. Vice Ad- miral Ainsworth was a distinguished task force commander in the South Pacific Campaign of World War ll and was known as a destroyerman's destroyerman. AINSWORTH was built by Avondale Shipyards, Inc., of Westwego, Louisiana. She is the thir- teenth ship of the JOSEPH HEWES class of frigates. The ship is specially designed for locating and destroying enemy submarines but is also capable of performing such other missions as patrol, search and rescue. blockade, surveillance, shore bombardment, anti-surface warfare and anti-air warfare. AINSWORTH is outfitted with the most recent electronic equipment for detecting andlor communicating with ships, submarines and aircraft. Main features include the ship's two sonar lunderwater sound detectionl systems. One, mounted in the hull of the bow, is capable of gaining surface or subsurface contacts at extremely long ranges. The other has a variable depth capability and is towed astern. AINSWORTHS principal arma- ment is the homing torpedo. Placed in the general vicinity of an enemy submarine, the torpedo will seek-out and destroy its target. The three systems installed in the ship to deliver the torpedo to the target area include: torpedo tubes, the ASROC lAntisubmarine Rocketl lawncher and the LAMPS il.ight Airborne Multi- Purpose Systernl, 3 manned FF-1090 SHIP HISTORY helicopter. Other major armament in- cludes the 5 !54 rapid fire gun, hav- ing a primary purpose of anti-air and anti-surface warfare. lt is also effec- tive for shore bombardment in sup- port of forces on beachheads to several miles inland. In August 1976, AINSWORTH became the first ship to receive installation of a production version of the HARPOON Missile Launch System. The HARPOON anti-ship missle, with beyond-the- horizon ranges in excess of 50 nautical miles, adds significantly to AlNSWOFiTH'S fighting capability. AINSWORTH is powered by a single five-bladed propeller driven by steam turbines developing 35,000 shaft horsepower. Featuring automatic combustion control of her two boilers, which operate at steam pressures of approximately 1200 pounds per square inch, she is capable of speeds in excess of 27 knots fmore than 30 miles per hourl. The ship's characteristics are: Length overall - 438 feet, beam fwidthl - 47 feet: navigational draft tdeepest point below waterlinel - 26 feetg full load displacement - 4,200 tons. AINSWORTH was commissioned 31'March 1973 and is manned by 18 officers and more than 240 enlisted personnel. The ship has facilities for embarking the squadron commander and his staff and a LAMPS helicopter detachment. In additio n v n to opear- tions in the Western Atlantic and the Caribbean operating areas, the ship has completed five extended Cf9Dloyments in her brief history. AINSWORTH was a unit o operation UNITAS XV from July 1974. to December 1974, conducting maneuvers with the forces ofseven South American navies while circum- navigating the continent and com- pleting twenty-one port visits. From October 1975 to May. 197-6. AINSWORTH participated in maior fleet exercises in the Mediterranean with the Sixth Fleet and in Northern European waters with NATO forces and made twenty-two port CallS In seven countries. AINSWOBTH PW' ticipated in various exercises with other units of the Sixth Fleet during her second deployment to the Mediterranean from March 1977 t0 October 1977, and visited fifteen ports in eight different countries. ln March 1978 AINSWORTH PW' ticipated in a weapons demonstration code named Exercise Shamrock for the President of the United States. From November 1979 to ADH' 1980 AINSWORTH was deployed 10 the Middle East. AINSWORTH sprefil over 3 months in the Persian Gulf during the lranian Crisis as a unit of Commander Middle East Force. Dur- ing this period, 86 days of con- secutive sea time were logged. Frorg August 1980 to November. 193 AINSWORTH participated In the NATO exercise teamwork 80. 'The ship has steamed over 500,000 miles. AINSWORTH has served as flag-'imp for Destroyer Squadron COYTI' manders Six, Ten and Twenty-Tvlf0- Homeported in Norfolk, Virginia? AINSWORTH is presently a Ufllt 0 Destroyer Squadron Ten. I

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