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Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

DEG-5 / FFG-5 USS RICHARD L. PAGE

CLASS - BROOKE As Built
Displacement: 2643 tons (std), 3426 tons (full) Dimensions: 414'(oa) 390'(wl) x 44' x 14' 6"; 24' (sonar)
Armament: 1 - 5"/38 Mk 56, 1 Mk112 ASROC octuple launcher (16 RUR-5A missiles), 1 Tartar single
Mk 22 launcher (16 missiles), 6-324mm Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes for Mk 46 torpedos
Machinery: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27.2 Knots Range: 4000 nm @20 Knots Crew: 14 / 214

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bath Iron Works Corp. at Bath, ME on 4 January 1965
Launched 4 April 1966, Commissioned 5 August 1967
Reclassified Frigate (FFG-5) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 30 September 1988

Fate: To Pakistan 31 March 1989, renamed Tabuk
Returned USN, and Stricken 12 January 1994
Sold 29 March 1994

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Richard L Page 233k Photo taken during sea trials with USS John F. Kennedy CV-67, 21 August 1968, Virginia Cape Op area Robert A. Adams STG1 (USNR-Ret). / © USN.
Richard L Page 76k Barry (DD-933), Sampson (DDG-10) and Richard L. Page (DEG-5) in the harbor at Athens, Greece. This image was received by the Naval Photographic Center in July 1974. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Fred Weiss

View the Richard L. Page (DEG-5)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
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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