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DE-1063 USS REASONER

CLASS - KNOX As Built
Displacement, 3011 Tons Standard, 3877 Tons Full Load,
Dimensions, 439' 6" x 46' 9" x 15'; 24' 9" (sonar)
Armament, 1 - 5"/54 (single) Mk 42 Mod 9, 1 Honeywell ASROC Mk 16 octuple launcher
4-324mm US Mk 32 (2 twin) tubes for Mk 46 torpedoes
Machinery, 2 Combustion Engineering boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000shp; 1 shaft
Speed, 27 Knots, Range 4500 Nm@20 knts, Crew, 288 (17 officers)

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Lockheed Shipbuilding, Seattle WA on 6 January 1969, 1 Launched August 1970
Commissioned 31 July 1971
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1063) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 30 August 1993, Stricken 11 January 1995.
Fate To Turkey 30 August 1993, renamed Kocatepe.
Still in Turkish service.

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Reasoner 163k Hong Kong July 18-22, 1973 ....Great Liberty. USN / Bill Bayard GMT2
Reasoner 162kb Picture scanned from my Reasoner Maiden Voyage '73 Book. USN / Bill Bayard GMT2
Reasoner 50kb at Pearl Harbor, circa 1977-1979 Dr. Kenneth Hartman
Reasoner 514kb Scanned from 1978 cruise book. Taken at Rabaul. OSC Joseph E. Sullenger USN (Ret.)
Reasoner 99kb Undated. USN / Ken Wilson
Reasoner 59k Ship's Patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Reasoner 55k Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS REASONER DE-1063 History
Not available at this time
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

None Located
Contact Name: None
Address: None
Phone: None
E-mail: None


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.


Additional Resources
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association

USS REASONER Web Page by Bill Bayard


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