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DE-1071 USS BADGER

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, San Pedro CA on 17 February 1968, Launched 7 December 1968
Commissioned 1 December 1970
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1071) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 20 December 1991
Stricken 11 January 1995
Fate Sunk as a target, 21/22 July 1998.

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Badger 58k Undated . USN / Walter Bengtson
Badger 81K at Pearl Harbor, circa 1977 - 1979 Dr. Kenneth Hartman
Badger 69K at Pearl Harbor, circa 1977 - 1979 Dr. Kenneth Hartman
Badger 31k Last Known Photo of Badger, The U.S. Navy sank ex-USS Badger (DE-1071) during weapons exercises on 21 July 1998 as a part of RIMPAC 98. She absorbed hits from Penguin, Hellfire, Maverick and telemetry Harpoon missiles. She was still afloat at sunset, but is assumed to have sunk sometime during the evening as search aircraft could not locate her on the morning of the 22nd. USN / LCDR J. Neil Hudson
Badger 55k Ship's Patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Badger 54k Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS BADGER DE-1071 History
Not available at this time
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(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.

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