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DE-1062 USS WHIPPLE

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, Seattle WA on 24 April 1967, Launched 12 April 1968
Commissioned 22 August 1970
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1062) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 14 September 1992, Stricken 11 January 1995
Fate Moored at Pearl Harbor Hawaii, pending possible transfer to Taiwan*.

* Taiwan is no longer interested in obtaining any more vessels of this class.
(Ex Aylwin, and Valdez were purchased outright and the remaining 6 vessels already in service,
R.E. Perry, J. Hewes, Cook, Brewton, Kirk and Barbey will be purchased at the end of their 5 year lease.)

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Whipple 179K taken on 1 October 1974, off the entrance to Pearl Harbor, departing for WestPac USN
Whipple 81K at Pearl Harbor, circa 1977 - 1979 Dr. Kenneth Hartman
Whipple 69K at Pearl Harbor, circa 1977 - 1979 Dr. Kenneth Hartman
Whipple 70K Off Oahu Hawaii, July 1985. © Richard Leonhardt
Whipple 127K Moored at NISMF Pearl Harbor, HI. August 1, 2000. © Jim Bedient
Whipple 111k Moored at NISMF Pearl Harbor, HI. August 1, 2000. © Jim Bedient
Whipple 58k Ship's Patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Whipple 59k Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski
Whipple 59k Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS WHIPPLE DE-1062 History
View This Vessel's DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Steve Langley & Mark Roberts
Address: P.O. Box 1634, Issaquah WA, 98027
Phone: (425) 898-8678
E-mail: Steve Langley or Mark Roberts
Place: To be announced
Date: To be announced
Remarks: USS Whipple crewmembers are organizing a reunion for August, 2003. Unlike many reunions, this one will include [former] refugees rescued by Whipple on August 22, 1978.

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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