The USS Ingraham, which is home-ported in Everett, Washington, is the last American Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate to be built, and the fourth ship of the U.S. Navy to be named for Capt. Duncan Ingraham (1802–1891).
Ingraham, while commanding the sloop St. Louis in the Mediterranean Squadron in July 1852, interfered with the Austrian consul’s detention of Martin Kosztca, a Hungarian who had declared in New York his intention of becoming an American citizen. For his conduct in this matter, the captain was awarded a medal by the U.S. Congress.
Military Veterans Affairs Office Director Ruth Coleman said the USS Ingraham has 265 officers and crew members on board.
“The ship has visited us before and this time they will be staying maybe until Monday,” Coleman said.
She said more than 10 military ships have visited the island since January.
Any changes in the weather may delay the ship’s arrival, she added, referring to the information from the National Weather Service on Guam about increasing winds and building seas from the newly formed Tropical Depression 22w.
“Anything could happen within the next 24 hours,” she said.
But as of yesterday afternoon, Coleman said no changes had been made to the ship’s scheduled arrival.
In 1917, the first Ingraham was launched but it sank in 1937. The second Ingraham sank in a collision with a tanker in the Atlantic Ocean while the third Ingraham was decommissioned in 1971 and transferred to the Greek Navy. It eventually sank in 2001.
