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DE-1061 USS PATTERSON

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 Avondale Marine, Avondale LA on October 1967, Launched 3 May 1969
Commissioned 14 March 1970
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1061) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 30 September 1991, Stricken 11 January 1995
Fate: sold for scrapping 29 September 1999

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Patterson 68k undated USN
Patterson 78k USS Patterson (DE-1061) Underway in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, 27 August 1970. Photographed by PHCS W.H. Long, USN. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. (Photo #: NH 99645) Tony Cowart / Fred Weiss
Patterson 111k USS Patterson (DE-1061) Underway in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, 27 August 1970. Photographed by PHCS W.H. Long, USN. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. (Photo #: NH 99646) Tony Cowart
Patterson 110k USS Patterson (DE-1061) Underway, circa the early 1970s. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. (Photo #: NH 99647) Tony Cowart
Patterson 65k USS Patterson (DE-1061) Visiting a German port, circa June-July 1971. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. (Photo #: NH 78756) Tony Cowart
Patterson 65k USS Patterson (DD-1061) At the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 1984, while serving as a unit of the Naval Reserve Force. Photographed by Francis M. Cox. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. (Photo #: NH 99648) Tony Cowart / Fred Weiss
Patterson 52k ship's patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Patterson 51k ship's patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS PATTERSON DE-1061 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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