USS Knox (FF-1052)

History of the USS Knox (FF-1052)

The Knox-class combat frigate was an extremely important addition to the United States Navy (USN) inventory in the early days of the Cold War (1946-1991). The team is an evolutionary step in the Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) category and has proven extremely important to the service's global operations - especially as the Soviet Navy's underwater forces proved to be a formidable adversary. Although 55 courses were planned, 46 were completed and 9 were cancelled. All were dedicated to the U.S.

Navy, and two of them ended up being floating museum ships, a ship that was doomed to failure due to rising operating costs and aging technology.

The design of the class began with a model of the "Ocean Escort", which itself was a development of the "Destroyer Escort" surface ships of the World War II (1939-1945) era. Over time (after June 1975) the ocean-going escort classification was abandoned in favor of the more traditional "frigate" naming convention.

The lead ship of the class was USS Knox (FF-1052), named after Commodore Dudley Wright Knox (1877-1960), an American veteran of two world wars. The ship was handed over to Todd Pacific Shipyard in Seattle, Washington in July 1964, and the keel was laid on October 5, 1965. She was officially launched on November 19, 1966, and entered service with the U.S.

Navy on March 28, 1969. Later that year, on April 12, the ship was officially commissioned. When she was classified as a destroyer escort, her original hull identification number was DE-1052. This was eventually changed to FF-1052 after she was reclassified as a frigate.

When completed, the frigate displaces 3,070 tons under standard load and 4,130 tons under full load. The overall length reaches 438 feet, the beam is 46.8 feet, and the draft is up to 24.8 feet. Power comes from 2 x Combustion Engineering (CE) boiler units providing 35,000hp to 1 x Westinghouse geared steam turbine to drive the single shaft stern.

Top speed in ideal conditions may exceed the listed 27 knots and range is 5,200 miles (4,500 nautical miles).

There were 16 officers and a crew of 211 men on board. The ship carries AN/SPS-10 surface search and AN/SPS-40 air search radar modifications, as well as AN/SQS-26CX Conar, AN/SQS-35 IVDS towed sonar arrays and AN/SLQ-electronics32 Series of War (EW) kit.

Specification

Basics

Year of Service

1969

Origins

United States

Status

stop service

Destroyed, scrapped.

supplement

227

staff

SHIPBUILDER

Todd Pacific Shipyards USA

Class information

Class

Knox Lesson

Class Size

55

ships

Class

USS Knows (FF-1052); USS Locke (FF-1053); USS Grey (FF-1054); USS Hapen (FF-1055); USS Connaught (FF-1056); USS Meyerkord (FF-1058); USS WS The Sims (FF-1059); USS Trombone (FF-1060); USS Patterson (FF-1064); USS Whipple (FF -1062); USS Reasoner (FF-1063); USS Lockwood (FF-1064); USS Stone (FF-1065); USS Marvin Shields (FF-1066); USS Francis Hammond ( FF-1067); USS Freeland (FF-1068); USS Bagley (FF-1069); USS Downs (FF-1070); USS Badger (FF-1071); USS Blakely (FF-1072) ); USS Robert E. Peary (FF-1073); USS Harold E. Holt (FF-1074); USS Tripp (FF-1075); USS Fanning (FF-1076); USS USS Ouellet (FF-1077); USS Joseph Hughes (FF-1078); USS Bowen (FF-1079); USS Paul (FF-1080); USS Irvine (FF-1081); Elmer USS Montgomery (FF-1082); USS Cook (FF-1083); USS McCandless (FF-1084); USS Donald B Billy (FF-1085); USS Bruton (FF-1086); USS Kirk (FF-1087); USS Barbie (FF-1088); USS Jesse L. Brown (FF-1089); USS Ainsworth (FF-1090); USS Miller (FF-1091) ; USS Thomas C Hart (FF-1092); USS Capodano (FF-1093); USS Faris (FF-1094); USS Truett (FF-1095); USS Valdez (FF -1096); DE-1098 to DE-1100 and DE-1102 to DE-1107 were unnamed ships and were cancelled.

Carrier

United States

Characters

Sea Bombing

Maritime bombardment/attack of surface targets/areas primarily through ship-based ballistic weapons.

Land Assault

Littoral attacks against surface targets primarily through ship-based missiles/missile weapons.

Sea Patrol

Active patrolling of critical waterways and sea areas; also serves as a local deterrent against air and maritime threats.

Airspace Denial/Deterrence

Neutralization or deterrence of flying elements by airborne missile weapon ballistics.

Fleet Support

Provide support (fire or materiel) to major surface fleets in blue water environments.

Distinctive Features

Air Defense

Airborne systems warn and protect ships from airborne and low-altitude ballistic and/or missile threats.

On the horizon

The ship is granted over-the-horizon combat capability, usually provided by a launched fixed-wing/rotary-wing aircraft.

Missile weapons

The ship supports long-range missile launches to air, sea or land-based targets; typical of modern design.

Anti-submarine missile

Capable of launching missile salvos against submarine threats.

Dimensions and Weight

Length

438. 0 feet

133.50m

Ray

46.8 feet

14.26m

Draft

24.8 feet

7.56m

Shift

3,100 t

Power and Performance

Installed Power:

2 x Combustion Engineering (CE) boilers power 1 x 35,000 hp Westinghouse gear steam turbine at the rear of the 1 x shaft.

Surface Velocity

section 27.5

(51.6 km/h)

Area

4,519nm

(5,200 miles | 8,369 kilometers)

Weapon

1 x 5" (127 mm) /54 caliber Mark 42 deck gun with turret. 1 x 8 anti-submarine rocket (ASROC) / "Harpoon" anti-ship missile launcher. 1 x 8-unit RIM-7 "Sea Sparrow" medium-range surface-to-air missile launcher (SAM).

Aircraft

1 x Kaman SH-2 Seasprite LAMPS I Navy Helicopter. 1 x DASH Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) / Rotary Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).