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DE-1070 USS DOWNES

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 5 September 1968, Launched 13 December 1969
Commissioned 28 August 1971
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1070) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 5 June 1992, Stricken 11 January 1995
Fate Moored at Bremerton Washington, pending possible transfer to Taiwan*.

* Taiwan is no longer interested in obtaining any more vessels of this class.
(Ex Aylwin, and Valdez were purchased outright and the remaining 6 vessels already in service,
R.E. Perry, J. Hewes, Cook, Brewton, Kirk and Barbey will be purchased at the end of their 5 year lease.)

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Downes 102k Undated . USN / Walter Bengtson
Downes 39k Undated, Good view of the forward 5" gun mount. © Barry Acton
Downes 74k 3 July 2002, remains of Downes after arrival at Mare Island, hulk scheduled for Sink-Ex Kirk Rattenne
Downes 105k Downes being towed under the Golden Gate Bridge, August 2003 © Kurt Greiner / SeaPhoto
Downes 49k Ship's Patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Downes 52k Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS DOWNES DE-1070 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.


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