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DE-1058 USS MYERKORD

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; 35,000shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27 knots; Range 4500 nm@20 knots; Crew: 288 (17 officers)

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Todd Shipbuilding, San Pedro CA on 1 September 1966, Launched 15 July 1967
Commissioned 28 November 1969
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1058) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 14 December 1991, Stricken 11 January 1995
Fate:scrapping contract awarded 14 Dec 2000 to Ship Dismantlement and Recycling, Inc.,
San Francisco CA for 3.3 million dollars. Removed from Navy custody 30 Jan 2001

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Myerkord 179k Taken from USS Coral Sea in the South China Sea in Feb or Mar 75 . © Phil Toy.
Myerkord 126k Taken from USS Passumpsic AO-107, while Myerkord was making her approach off the coast of Viet Nam in 1972. © Ralph Turner.
Myerkord 38k ship's patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Myerkord 60k ship's patch (FF) Mike Smolinski
Myerkord 50k ship's patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS MYERKORD DE-1058 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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