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DE-1056 USS CONNOLE

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, Avaondale LA. on March 23 1967.
Launched July 20 1968.
Commissioned August 30 1969.
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1056) on June 30 1975.
Decommissioned July 25 1992.
Stricken January 11 1995.
Fate To Greece August 30 1992.
Renamed Epirius.
Still in Greek Service as of early 2000.

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Connole 66 Undated USN
Connole 55k Med. 1980. USN / Steve Giberti, EM1 76-80.
Connole 40k From the helo deck looking aft, Med. 1980. © Steve Giberti, EM1 76-80.
Connole 56k January 1981 as she entered the General Dynamics Shipyard in Quincy MA. She is covered in ice from spending the night in 15-foot seas going around Cape Cod. Michael Boyd
Connole 48k closeup of the bridge, taken on December 25, 1982 Fabio Pena
Connole 93k As HHMS Epirius (F-456), taken on February 10, 2001, during NATO's STANAVFORMED port call. She was outboard of USS Deyo (DD 989). Fabio Pena
Connole 101k As HHMS Epirius (F-456), taken on February 10, 2001 Fabio Pena
Connole 55k Ship's Patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Connole 57k Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS CONNOLE DE-1056 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
2002 Reunion, October 25-27, 2002, Mayport, Fl.
Contact Name: J. Larry Venturino
Address: 1512 Heartwellville St NW, Palm Bay, Fl. 32907
Phone: 321-728-4018
E-mail: vinny47@aol.com


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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