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DE-1072 USS BLAKELY

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, Avondale LA on 3 June 1968, Launched 23 August 1969
Commissioned 18 July 1970
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1072) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 15 November 1991
Stricken 11 January 1995
Fate Sold 29 September 1999 for scrapping

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Blakely 102k Undated. USN
Blakely 34k Key West 1986. © Boatwains Mate 2nd Class (SW) M.T. Samuels
Blakely 64k Ship's Patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Blakely 52k Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS BLAKELY DE-1072 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

2004 Reunion in planning stage for St. Louis MO

Contact Name:Merle Houk
Address:none
Phone:none
E-mail:mhouk20@hotmail.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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