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USS Harold E. Holt (DE-1074)


Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons





Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon - Navy Unit Commendation
Second Row: Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon - Navy Expeditionary Medal
Third Row: National Defense Service Medal w/ 1 star - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal w/ 2 stars - Vietnam Service Medal w/ 1 star
Fourth Row: Southwest Asia Service Medal w/ 1 star - Humanitarian Service Ribbon w/ 1 star - Sea Service Deployment Ribbon
Fifth Row: Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia) - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)


Class: Knox (As Built)      FY / SCB No.: 64/199C
Displacement: 3020 tons (std), 4065 tons (full)    Dimensions: 438'(oa), 415" (wl) x 46' 9" x 24' 9"
Armament: 1 x 5"/54 Mk 42, 1 ASROC Mk16 (16 missiles), 4-324mm Mk 32 (4x1 fixed) tubes / Mk 46 torpedos
Machinery: 2 CE 1200psi boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27 knots    Range: 4,500 nm @ 20 knots    Crew: 13 / 211
Radars: AN/SPS-10 (surface), AN/SPS-40 (air), AN/SPS-58 threat warning in some ships
Sonars: AN/SQS-26CX, AN/SQS-35 IVDS in FF-1052, 1056, 1063-1071, 1073-1076, 1078-1097

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Todd Shipbuilding, San Pedro CA on 11 May 1968
Launched 3 May 1969, Commissioned 21 March 1971
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1074) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned at NavSta Pearl Harbor 2 July 1992, Stricken 11 January 1995

Fate: sunk by various ordnance during Exercise RimPac 2002 on 10 July 2002
Location: 023° 02' N, 160° 04' W
Depth: 2560 fathoms, Tonnage: 3011

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H.E. Holt 6k Harold Edward Holt (5 August 1908 - presumed dead 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician who became the 17th Prime Minister of Australia in 1966. His term as Prime Minister dramatically ended in December of the following year when he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea and was presumed drowned. Holt spent 32 years in Parliament, including many years as a senior Cabinet Minister, but was Prime Minister for only 22 months. This necessarily limited his personal and political impact, especially when compared to his immediate predecessor Robert Menzies, who was PM for a total of 18 years.

Today, Holt is mainly remembered for the sensational circumstances of his death, for his controversial role in expanding Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War and for his famous (or infamous) "All the way with LBJ" quote. In the opinion of his biographer Tom Frame, this has tended to obscure the many achievements of Holt's long and distinguished political career.

USS Harold E. Holt (DE-1074) was the first ship named in his honor, she was also the first American warship to bear the name of a foreign head of state.

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H.E. Holt 94k date / location unknown (Photo © David W. Threlkeld) David W. Threlkeld
H.E. Holt 89k date / location unknown (Photo © David W. Threlkeld)
H.E. Holt 92k date / location unknown (Photo © David W. Threlkeld)
H.E. Holt 47k May 1975: Overhead pic of the USS Harold E. Holt (DE-1074) towing away the American cargo ship Mayaguez, after its capture from the Khmer Rouge by a boarding party of Marines, following the attack on Koh Tang Island. Robert Hurst
**Roark / Holt** 233k 15 June 1982: NavSta, Subic Bay, Luzon PI - An aerial view of the US Naval Ship Repair Facility. Berthed at the shipyard are the Knox-class frigates USS Roark (FF-1053) and Harold E. Holt. Moored alongside them is the guided missile frigate USS Brooke (FFG-1). (US Navy photo DVID #DN-SN-84-06232 by PH1 David McLean from the Defense Visual Information Center) Navsource
H.E.Holt 155k 2 July 1986: Honolulu HI - A port bow view of Harold E. Holt in port. (US Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-86-08679 by PH2 Lancaster from the DVIC)
***Duncan/Holt*** 179k 31 May 1996: Pearl Harbor HI - Port quarter view of the decommissioned guided missile frigate Duncan moored with other reserve ships at the Ships Intermediate Maintenance Facility (SIMF) in the middle loch at Pearl Harbor. To the right are the Knox class frigates Harold Holt (FF-1074), Whipple (FF-1062) and one unidentified unit. (US Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-97-01130 by Don S. Mongomery, USN (ret.), from the DVIC)
H.E. Holt 29k 10 July 2002: RimPac 2002 Sinkex, Harold E. Holt's final farewell Peter Skoutas
H.E. Holt 35k 10 July 2002: RimPac 2002 Sinkex
H.E. Holt 33k 10 July 2002: RimPac 2002 Sinkex
H.E. Holt 39k 10 July 2002: RimPac 2002 Sinkex
H.E. Holt 34k 10 July 2002: RimPac 2002 Sinkex
H.E. Holt 29k 10 July 2002: RimPac 2002 Sinkex
H.E. Holt 103k 10 July 2002: RimPac 2002 Sinkex
H.E. Holt 85k 10 July 2002: RimPac 2002 Sinkex
H.E. Holt 89k 10 July 2002: RimPac 2002 Sinkex

Additional Memorabilia
Cruise Patch
H.E. Holt
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Cruise Patch
H.E. Holt
Courtesy of
Mike Smolinski

The USS Harold E. Holt (DE-1074), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site is not presently available.

Harold E. Holt's Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves
26 Mar 1971 - 18 Feb 1972      Cmdr. John Patrick Leahy
18 Feb 1972 -17 Sep 1973   Cmdr. Charles William Cullen
17 Sep 1973 - 17 Sep 1975   Cmdr. Robert A. Peterson
17 Sep 1975 - 09 Jul 1977   Cmdr. Thomas Francis Howley
09 Jul 1977 - 30 Oct 1979   Cmdr. Norman Alfred Mayo
30 Oct 1979 - 21 Oct 1981   Cmdr. Donn Valentine Parent
21 Oct 1981 - 08 Jul 1983   Capt. Marvin Joseph Weniger
08 Jul 1983 - 16 Jun 1985   Capt. Jerry Robert Bailey
16 Jun 1985 - 01 Oct 1987   Cmdr. William C. Keller
01 Oct 1987 - 25 Aug 1989   Cmdr. Arthur Gregory Teves
25 Aug 1989 - 28 Jul 1991   Cmdr. Robert Kevin (Doc) Blanchard
28 Jul 1991 - 02 Jul 1992   Cmdr. Leo Joseph Quilici II

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

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Additional Resources

Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
USS Harold E. Holt Page on Destroyers Online
USS Harold E. Holt Page on Military.Com
USS Harold E. Holt Page on Navysite
USS Harold E. Holt Page on Tin Can Sailors

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