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DE-1052 USS KNOX

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 Todd Shipbuilding, Seattle. on October 5 1965.
Launched November 19 1966.
Commissioned April 12 1969.
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1052) on June 30 1975.
Decommissioned February 14 1992.
Stricken January 11 1995.
Fate Held for possible Museum donation, Bremerton Washington.

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Knox 88 Official USN Photo, 1980's Walter Bengtson
Knox 66 Shimoda Japan, 1978 © CDR. James H. Hopper III USN-RET.
Knox 110 Hong Kong, 1977 © CDR. James H. Hopper III USN-RET.
Knox 113 Off Diamond Head Hawaii, 1977. Official USN Photo CDR. James H. Hopper III USN-RET.
Knox 98 Pearl Harbor Hawaii, March 1972 © Richard Leonhardt
Knox 23 In reserve, Bremerton Washington. Francis Hammond DE-1067, Roark DE-1053 and Hepburn DE-1055 alongside. 1996. © CDR. James H. Hopper III USN-RET.
Knox 26 Entering Port, Yokosuka Japan, 1978. © CDR. James H. Hopper III USN-RET.
Knox 49k Ship's Patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Knox 42k Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS KNOX DE-1052 History
View This Vessel's DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Michael W. Cuff, MMCM (SW), USN, Ret
Address: P.O.Box 338, Ocotillo CA 92259
Phone: 760-358-7226
E-mail: mailto:ocopf@inreach.com



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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