| The most numerous class of replacements for the World War II-era destroyer escorts was the 46-ship Knox class. Ten ships were authorized in fiscal year 1964, sixteen in 1965 and ten each in 1966, ’67 and ’68. Six were canceled in 1968; four more in 1969.
Built by four yards and commissioned as destroyer escorts (DEs) 1052–97 in 1969–74, they were redesignated frigates (FF) on 30 June 1975 and phased out in 1991–94 as the Oliver Hazard Perry class arrived in numbers. Eight were transferred to Taiwan and two to Thailand.
The Knox class abandoned the 5-inch/38-caliber dual purpose guns used by the preceding Garcia class in favor of an automatic 5-inch/54.SPECIFICATIONS
Length: 438' overall; 415' waterline.
Beam: 47'.
Draft: 15'.
Displacement: 3020 tons (light); 4066 tons (full load).
Power Plant: 2 x 1200 psi boilers; 1 geared turbine, 1 shaft; 35,000 shaft horsepower.
Speed: 27 knots (design).
Complement: 13 officers; 211 enlisted. To find an image of a ship: (1) hover to identify the image; then click to view it in more detail or (2) link from the ship list below. FF 1052 Knox, FF 1053 Roark, FF 1054 Gray, FF 1055 Hepburn, FF 1056 Connole, FF 1057 Rathburne, FF 1058 Meyerkord, DD 1059 W. S. Sims, FF 1060 Lang, FF 1061 Patterson, FF 1062 Whipple, FF 1063 Reasoner, FF 1064 Lockwood, FF 1065 Stein, FF 1066 Marvin Shields, FF 1067 Francis Hammond, FF 1068 Vreeland, FF 1069 Bagley, FF 1070 Downes, FF 1071 Badger, FF 1072 Blakely, FF 1073 Robert E. Peary, FF 1074 Harold E. Holt, FF 1075 Trippe, FF 1076 Fanning, FF 1077 Ouellet, FF 1078 Joseph Hewes, FF 1079 Bowen, FF 1080 Paul, FF 1081 Aylwin, FF 1082 Elmer Montgomery, FF 1083 Cook, FF 1084 McCandless, FF 1085 Donald B. Beary, FF 1086 Brewton, FF 1087 Kirk, FF 1088 Barbey, FF 1089 Jesse L. Brown, FF 1090 Ainsworth, FF 1091 Miller, FF 1092 Thomas C. Hart, FF 1093 Capodanno, FF 1094 Pharris, FF 1095 Truett, FF 1096 Valdez, FF 1097 Moinester. | |
