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DE-1088 USS BARBEY

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 5 February 1971, Launched 4 December 1971
Commissioned 11 November 1972
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1088) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 19 March 1992
Fate To Taiwan 21 June 1994, renamed Hwai Yang, still in service

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Barbey 112kb Undated. USN
Barbey 60kb Undated. USN / Jerry Hays
Barbey 16kb postcard sold aboard ship Bob Last
QM2 '76 - '79
Barbey 148kb at sea, circa 1987 Dr. Kenneth Hartman
Barbey 97kb Ship's Patch (DE) Mike Smolinski
Barbey 70kb Ship's Patch (FF) Mike Smolinski

USS BARBEY DE-1088 History
Not available at this time
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(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

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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