USS Voge ( FF - 1047 ) The USS " Voge " ( FF - 1047 ) , a of the US Navy named after Richard George Voge , was laid down on 21 November 1963 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City , Michigan . She was launched on 4 February 1965 , sponsored by Mrs . Alice Voge Oetting , widow of Rear Admiral Voge ; and commissioned at the Boston Naval Shipyard on 25 November 1966 , with Commander William F . Keller in command . " Voge " fulfilled a Protection of Shipping ( POS ) mission as anti - submarine warfare ( ASW ) combatants for amphibious expeditionary forces , underway replenishment groups and merchant convoys . " Voge " made notable contributions to submarine ' hold - down ' tactics with sister ship " USS Koelsch ( FF - 1049 ) " . She collided with a Soviet submarine in 1976 . History . " Voge " remained at the Boston Naval Shipyard until 11 April 1967 , completing her outfitting . On that day , she stood out of Boston , bound for her home port , Newport , Rhode Island , whence she operated until mid - May . On 15 May , she departed Newport for her shakedown cruise , which lasted until 24 June , and during which she operated out of Guantánamo Bay , Cuba . The ocean escort returned to Newport on 24 June and conducted local operations from there through the end of July . On 1 August , she re - entered the Boston Naval Shipyard for her post - shakedown availability . That yard period occupied her for the remainder of 1967 and during the first two months of 1968 . In March 1968 , she rejoined Escort Squadron ( CortRon ) 6 at Newport , and began duty supporting the development and testing of sophisticated anti - submarine warfare tactics and related equipment . Her operations out of Newport continued through the end of 1968 . In February 1969 , she began preparations for a brief cruise to northern Europe to participate in a NATO exercise . She departed Newport on 1 April , and made her first port call at Lisbon , Portugal later that month , after conducting hunter / killer ASW exercises with ships of the Spanish and Portuguese navies . From Portugal , she moved to Spithead , England , for a Royal Review of the NATO Fleet in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the treaty organization . In late May and early June , she made port visits to Cherbourg , France ; Edinburgh , Scotland ; and Bremen , Germany ; conducting further hunter / killer exercises when at sea between ports . From Bremen , Voge headed back to Newport , and , en route home , encountered a submarine contact later confirmed as a Soviet " Yankee - type " submarine . Voge successfully applied hold - down tactics on the Russia n submarine , and later received the Meritorious Unit Commendation for her efforts . Upon completing the usual post - cruise leave and repair period , the ocean escort resumed her duties out of Newport , practicing and testing ASW tactics and testing newly developed ASW equipment . Such a routine occupied her until August 1970 when she entered the Boston Naval Shipyard for her first regular overhaul . " Voge " completed her yard period late in January and spent February completing post - overhaul sea trials . After gunnery exercises in the Virginia Capes operating area early in March , she got underway on 12 March for her refresher training cruise to the Guantanamo Bay operating area . " Voge " returned to Newport on 10 May , and after a tender availability , resumed operations in the Narragansett Bay area . She continued that routine until the following spring when she crossed the Atlantic for bilateral United States - Spanish ASW exercises and another with ships of the Portuguese Navy . " Voge " returned home through very heavy weather and reentered Newport on 24 April 1972 . The ocean escort immediately began preparations for her first deployment with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea . On 13 June , the warship began her voyage to Rota , Spain , where she arrived on the 22nd . During the ensuing six months , " Voge " joined other ships of the 6th Fleet in a series of unilateral and bilateral exercises and made port visits throughout the Mediterranean . Of special interest were her visit to the Turkish Naval War College on Heybeliada Island in the Sea of Marmara in early August , and her participation in the multinational NATO Exercise " Deep Furrow " late in September . In early November , she was assigned special duty shadowing Soviet submarines reporting to and leaving the Mediterranean . On one occasion , she followed a departing Soviet submarine some 300 miles into the Atlantic before breaking contact and returning to the Mediterranean . On 10 December , she completed turnover to her relief , and set course for Newport where she arrived on 18 December . After completing the usual month of post - deployment leave and repairs , " Voge " resumed normal East Coast operations in January 1973 . That routine occupied her through most of 1973 , and included two major exercises in March , a brief tour as destroyer school ship in April , participation in bilateral exercises with ships of the French Navy in June , and a midshipman training cruise in July . She received orders changing her home port to Mayport , Florida , on 16 August ; and four days later , she got underway for the south . She arrived in Mayport on the 22nd , and began local operations which kept her busy until near the end of the year . Late in December , " Voge " began preparations to return to the Mediterranean . On 4 January 1974 , " Voge " stood out of Mayport on her way to join the 6th Fleet . She arrived in Rota on the 14th , and relieved before joining Task Group ( TG ) 60 . 1 near Golfe Juan , France , on the 19th . Again , the warship joined units of the 6th Fleet and of Allied navies in a series of unilateral and bilateral exercises as well as in at least one multi - lateral exercise . She again made port visits all along the Mediterranean littoral before she departed Rota on 24 June , for home . After reentering Mayport on 3 July , the ship devoted July to post - deployment leave and upkeep ; and a tender availability in Mayport , preparatory to regular overhaul , took care of August . On 4 September , she departed Mayport , and the following day , arrived in Charleston , South Carolina . She entered the Charleston Naval Shipyard late on the 6th , and commenced a 10 - month overhaul . While at Charleston , she was reclassified a frigate and redesignated FF - 1047 on 1 July 1975 . A fortnight later , her overhaul was completed , and " Voge " returned to Mayport . Refresher training and naval gunfire support exercises engaged her until October , at which time she returned to Charleston for a three - month restricted availability to correct problems in her main propulsion plant . Late in December , the warship returned to Mayport . " Voge " remained at her home port until mid - February 1976 , when she put to sea to participate in exercises conducted in the Caribbean with units of the Netherlands and British navies . Upon her return to port , the frigate began preparations for her third deployment to the Mediterranean . After a brief visit to Charleston , South Carolina , she departed that port on 14 April , and headed for Rota where she arrived on the 26th . During much of that deployment , port visits all along the Mediterranean punctuated a series of training exercises conducted with units of the 6th Fleet and from foreign navies . Late in the deployment , she also resumed surveillance duties on Soviet naval forces operating in the Mediterranean . On 28 August , while operating in the Ionian Sea at 36°2 ' N and 20°36 ' E near Greece , the Soviet Echo II class submarine K - 22 collided with her , and she sustained serious structural damage that necessitated drydocking at Toulon , France . On 7 November , " Voge " successfully completed post - drydock sea trials , and then headed for Rota for turnover . On the 20th , she stood out of Rota bound for Mayport . The frigate reentered her home port on 2 December . " Voge " spent almost all of the ensuing seven months in port at Mayport , putting to sea only to test the main propulsion plant . On 11 July 1977 , she headed back toward Rota in company with the aircraft carrier , and the frigate for duty with the 6th Fleet . However , she soon was ordered back to Mayport because of contaminated potable water tanks , and reached home on 13 July . On 27 July , the frigate got underway and , after an independent transit of the Atlantic , finally arrived in Rota on 3 August . Again port visits and exercises - unilateral , bilateral , and multilateral — kept her busy during that tour of duty in the " middle sea . " On 12 December , she changed operational control back to the 2nd Fleet at Gibraltar , and headed back toward Mayport . The frigate arrived home two days before Christmas and began post - deployment standdown . " Voge " spent the first five months of 1978 engaged in training exercises out of Mayport . Early in June , she departed for the Bahamas where she provided services to submarines . The frigate then proceeded to Charleston to load ammunition and continued on to Boston . On 12 July , " Voge " commenced a scheduled overhaul at Braswell Shipyard in South Boston which continued on into 1979 . ASW Ships Command & Control System . ASW Ships Command & Control System ( ASWSC & CS ) was a Naval Tactical Data System ( NTDS ) system for antisubmarine warfare . It was implemented only on the " Voge " , " USS Koelsch ( FF - 1049 ) " and the ASW aircraft carrier " USS Wasp ( CVS - 18 ) " in 1966 . The ASWSC & CS allowed the development of improvements in antisubmarine warfare using digital computers , which were implemented in other ASW ship classes . The three ships operated together as a submarine hunter / killer group and gained the reputation as the best in the fleet . In 1969 Voge detected a submerged Soviet submarine and used hold - down tactics on the sub to the point that she forced the sub to surface . For this action Voge was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation . UNIVAC was contracted to define the hardware and develop the software to incorporate ASW functions . Fate . After de - commissioning on 23 August 1989 , " Voge " was put into mothballs at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard . " Voge " was sold for scrapping on 25 July 1995 , but was repossessed by the Navy from the scrapper . A contract to scrap the ship was finally issued on 26 May 2000 to the Metro Machine Corporation of Philadelphia , Pa for $ 2 , 600 , 000 . Voge was then scrapped by Metro Machine Corporation with the contract being completed on 16 January 2001 .