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USS Meyerkord
DE/FF 1058 (Knox Class)
The Ship
USS MEYERKORD, on her shakedown cruise, off the coast of Oahu, March
1969
| Builder: |
Todd Shipyards |
| Laid Down: |
September 1, 1966 |
| Launched: |
April 15, 1967 |
| Commissioned: |
November 28, 1969 |
| Decommissioned: |
December 14, 1991 |
| Stricken: |
January 11, 1995 |
| Fate: |
Suisun Bay, for scrap |
The Knox Class as Constructed
| Displacement: |
4,260 tons fully loaded. |
| Length: |
438' |
| Beam: |
47' |
| Draught: |
16' (keel); 26' (Sonar dome) |
| Machinery:
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Two combustion Engineering boilers;
One Westinghouse geared turbine;
35,000 shp; 1 shaft. |
| Performance: |
27 kts. |
| Bunkerage: |
200,000 gallons |
| Range: |
4,000 miles at 22 knots on 1 boiler. |
| Torpedoes: |
MK 32 |
| Guns:
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1 FMC 5" 54 cal Mk-42; 1 G.E. 20mm
6-barrelled Mk-15 Vulcan Phalanx
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