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DE-1089 USS JESSE L. BROWN

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 8 April 1971, Launched 18 March 1972
Commissioned 17 February 1973
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1089) on 30 June 1975.
Decommissioned 27 June 1994
Fate To Egypt 27 June 1994, renamed Dumyat.
Still in service

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Jesse L. Brown 123k USS Jesse L. Brown (DE-1089) ties up at the Charleston Naval Base, as she returns from maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea with other ships of DesRon Four, 5 December 1974.
Photographed by PH1 Milt Putnam. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph (NH96768).
Fred Weiss
Jesse L. Brown 168k Inport, stern shot. No date. John
Jesse L. Brown 161k Underway off the Maine coast. Photograph was received in January 1979. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. John
Jesse L. Brown 28k Underway. UNITAS cruise, 1979. John
Jesse L. Brown 126k shot on return transit from Med Cruise of 87-88, by Lt. Simmons from Brown's LAMPS helo John
Jesse L. Brown 46k Ship's Emblem John
Jesse L. Brown 61k Ship's Patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Jesse L. Brown 69k Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS JESSE L. BROWN DE-1089 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None Located
Contact Name: None
Address: None
Phone: None
E-mail: None


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