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DEG-4 / FFG-4 USS TALBOT

CLASS - BROOKE As Built
Displacement, 2643 Tons Standard, 3426 Tons Full Load,
Dimensions, 415' x 44' x 14' 6"; 24' (sonar)
Armament, 1 - 5"/38 (single) Mk 56, 1 ASROC octuple launcher,
1 Tartar/Standard MR single Mk 22 launcher,
6-324mm US Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes for Mk 46 torpedoes.
Machinery, 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000shp; 1 shaft
Speed, 27.2 Knots, Range 4000 NM @20 Knots, Crew, 214 (14 officers)

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bath Iron Works Corp. at Bath, Maine on May 4 1964.
Launched January 6 1966.
Commissioned April 22 1967.
Reclassified Frigate (FFG-4) on June 30 1975.
Decommissioned September 30 1988.
To Pakistan April 31 1989, renamed Hunian.
Fate Returned USN, and Stricken November 29 1993.
Sold March 29 1994 and broken up for scrap.

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Talbot 114k Aerial starboard beam view, underway. Sep 1 1984. USN
Talbot 90k A port quarter view of the Chilean tanker Araucano AO-53 as it refuels Talbot, during Operation Unitas XXV. June 1 1984. USN/PHC Mitchell.
Talbot 113k A port bow view. Underway during the multinational naval exercise Unitas XXV. January 1 1984. USN/PHC Mitchell.
Talbot 103k A port quarter view. Executing a high speed turn during multinational naval exercise Unitas XXV. January 1 1984. USN/PH2 Paul Erickson.
Talbot 203k Aerial view, underway. Location/date unknown. USN
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. USN
Talbot 28k 1969 Kiel Canal Scott Reed
Talbot 30k 1969 Kiel Canal Scott Reed
Talbot 70k Undated USN
Talbot 46k ship's patch (DEG) Mike Smolinski
Talbot 48k ship's patch (FFG) Mike Smolinski

USS TALBOT FFG-4 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None Located
Contact Name: None
Address: None
Phone: None
E-mail: None


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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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