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DE-1026 USS HOOPER

CLASS: DEALEY (As Built) FY / SCB No.: 52/72
Displacement:1314 tons (std), 1877 tons (full) Dimensions:314' 6"(oa), 308" (wl) x 36' 9" x 18' 0"
Armament: 4 x 3"/50 (2x2) Mk 33, 1 Mk 108 ASW rocket launcher, 6-324mm Mk 32 (2x3) tubes / Mk 46 torpedos
Machinery: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 De Laval geared turbine; 20,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27 knots Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots Crew: 12 / 161

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Steel, Alameda CA on 4 January 1956
Launched 1 August 1957, Commissioned 18 March 1958
Decommissioned September 1968, Stricken 6 June 1973
Fate: sold for scrapping 20 February 1974

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Hooper 65k 18 March 1961, Commissioning Day Ken Sargent
via Terry Gann
Hooper 43k Welcome Aboard Pamphlet photo, circa 1961 Ken Sargent
via Terry Gann
Hooper 127k Preparing to refuel from Chemung (AO-30) in the Western Pacific, 24 January 1963 Fred Juvenile
via Terry Gann
Hooper 60k From 1964 Cruise Book Terry Gann
Hooper 76k Moored at Yokosuka, 1964 Terry Gann
Hooper 46k Kaohsuing, Taiwan, March 1966. © Richard Leonhardt
Hooper 79k taken by crewmember Steve Knox in 1971... tied up at the Mole Pier, Long Beach CA Joe Schneider

USS HOOPER DE-1026 History
DANFS History Archive
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

CortRon 3 / CortDiv 31 Combined Reunion (DE-1023, 1024, 1025, 1026)
1st Reunion, 6 - 10 March 2005, Laughlin NV
Reunion Contact Name: Jack Price
Address:144 Five Mile Road / Suffolk VA 23434-6932
Phone:(757) 255-0505
E-mail: Jack Price


Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.


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