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DEG-6 / FFG-6 USS JULIUS A. FURER

CLASS - BROOKE As Built
Displacement: 2643 tons (std), 3426 tons (full) Dimensions: 414'(oa) 390'(wl) x 44' x 14' 6"; 24' (sonar)
Armament: 1 - 5"/38 Mk 56, 1 Mk112 ASROC octuple launcher (16 RUR-5A missiles), 1 Tartar single
Mk 22 launcher (16 missiles), 6-324mm Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes for Mk 46 torpedos
Machinery: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27.2 Knots Range: 4000 nm @20 Knots Crew: 14 / 214

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bath Iron Works Corp. at Bath, ME on 4 January 1965
Launched 4 April 1966, Commissioned 5 August 1967
Reclassified Frigate (FFG-6) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 30 September 1988

Fate: To Pakistan 31 March 1989, renamed Tabuk
Returned USN, and Stricken 12 January 1994
Sold 29 March 1994

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Julius A. Furer 127k unknown location/date USN.
Julius A. Furer 119k unknown location/date USN.
Julius A. Furer 37k Moored pier Quebec, Charleston, SC. Nov or Dec 1979 Walter Bengtson.
Julius A. Furer 72k entering Grand Harbor, Valletta, Malta (20 April 1970) Tom Sirignano

View the Julius A. Furer (DEG-6)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information


Contact Name: Edmund Smith, OS2, Aboard 75-79
Address: PO Box 67 / Powder Springs GA 30127
Phone: (800) 922-6645
E-mail: Ed Smith


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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