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DE-1057 USS RATHBURNE

CLASS - KNOX As Built
Displacement: 3011 tons (std), 3877 tons (full)
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; 35,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27 knots; Range 4500 nm@20 knots; Crew: 288 (17 officers)

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Lockheed Shipbuilding, Seattle WA on 8 January 1968, Launched 2 May 1969
Commissioned 16 May 1970
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1057) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 14 February 1992, Stricken 11 January 1995
Fate:sunk by various ordnance during RimPac 2002, 5 Jul 2002
Location: 022° 11' 42" N, 160° 13' 07" W
Depth: 2552 fathoms, Tonnage: 3001


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Rathburne 40k undated USN / Micheal Gormady, 73-75.
Rathburne 44k undated Tom Morgan
Rathburne 32k RimPac 2002, 5 July Peter Skoutas
Rathburne 101k RimPac 2002, 5 July Peter Skoutas
Rathburne 113k RimPac 2002, 5 July Peter Skoutas
Rathburne 76k RimPac 2002, 5 July Peter Skoutas
Rathburne 26k RimPac 2002, 5 July Peter Skoutas
Rathburne 43k ship's patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Rathburne 45k ship's patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS RATHBURNE DE-1057 History
Not available at this time
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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.


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