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DEG-4 / FFG-4 USS TALBOT

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 May 1964
Launched 6 January 1966, Commissioned 22 April 1967
Reclassified Frigate (FFG-4) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 30 September 1988, Stricken 29 November 1993

Fate: To Pakistan 31 April 1989, renamed Hunian
returned USN, and stricken 29 November 1993
sold for scrapping 29 March 1994

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Talbot 114k aerial starboard beam view, underway 1 Sep 1984 USN
Talbot 90k A port quarter view of the Chilean tanker Araucano AO-53 as it refuels Talbot, during Operation Unitas XXV. 1 June 1984 USN/PHC Mitchell
Talbot 113k A port bow view. Underway during the multinational naval exercise Unitas XXV. 1 January 1984 USN/PHC Mitchell
Talbot 103k A port quarter view. Executing a high speed turn during multinational naval exercise Unitas XXV. 1 January 1984 USN/PH2 Paul Erickson
Talbot 203k aerial view, underway at speed, date / location unknown Scott Reed
Talbot 203k Aerial port side view of Talbot as she appeared during testing of the OM 76MM gun, circa 1975 -1976, off Puerto Rico. Talbot was being used as a test platform for the new gun, which was to be used on the FFG-7 class Frigates. The gun was heavily tested off Puerto Rico. USN
Talbot 203k Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Around July of 1978. Post yard work-ups. Walter Bengtson
Talbot 148k Manning the rails. Taken shortly after construction, circa 1966 -1967. Bill Kievit
Talbot 28k Kiel Canal 1969 Scott Reed
Talbot 30k Kiel Canal 1969 Scott Reed
Talbot 70k undated USN
Additional Ship's Memoribilia
Brooke
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Brooke
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View the Talbot (DEG-4)
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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