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DE-1075 USS TRIPPE

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 Avondale Marine, Avondale LA on 29 July 1968, Launched 1 November 1969
Commissioned 19 September 1970
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1075) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 30 July 1992
Fate: To Greece (grant aid) 30 July 1992, renamed Thraki (F-457).
Still in service.

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Trippe 55k undated USN
Trippe 85k Underway off New Orleans, Louisiana, 9 September 1970. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. (NH74025) Fred Weiss
Trippe 117k Underway off New Orleans, Louisiana, 9 September 1970. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. (USN1146287) Fred Weiss
Trippe 108k Underway off New Orleans, Louisiana, 9 September 1970. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. (NH74024) Fred Weiss
Trippe 165k Underway after being fitted with an enlarged helicopter hangar and flight deck. Photograph was received by the Naval Photographic Center in February 1975. Official U.S. Navy Photograph. (USN1160984) Fred Weiss
Trippe 126k Underway off Porto de Heirro, Venezuela, while participating in exercise Unitas XX, circa June-October 1979. Photographed by PH2 K. Brewer, USN. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. (NH99655) Fred Weiss
Trippe 125k Crew prepares board the ship during her commissioning ceremonies, held at Pier "Alfa", Charleston Naval Shipyard, South Carolina, on 19 September 1970. Photographed by Commander Sixth Naval District Photo Lab. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. (NH99651) Fred Weiss
Trippe 12k Med Cruise, April 1987 Photo by: SN Ron Baldwin
Trippe 91k ship's patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Trippe 50k ship's patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS TRIPPE DE-1075 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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