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USS Blakely (FF-1072)

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USS Blakely (FF-1072)
Career United States Navy Jack
Ordered:
Laid down: 3 June 1968
Launched: 23 August 1969
Commissioned: 18 July 1970
Decommissioned: 15 November 1991
Struck: 11 January 1995
Fate: 29 September 1999, sold for scrapping
General Characteristics
Displacement: 4202 tons
Length: 438 ft
Beam: 47 ft
Draft: 25 ft
Propulsion: Steam Turbines
Speed: 27.4 kts
Range:
Depth:
Complement: 22 officers and 255 enlisted
Armament: 2 Mk32 Twin torpedo tubes for 24 Mk46 torpedoes

Mk16 8-cell ASROC launcher (later RGM-84 Harpoon missiles) Mk42 5inch/54 rapid fire cannon with SPG-53A radar and Mk68 (GFCS) Mk15 Phalanx 20mm (CIWS) (added later)

Aircraft: Kaman SH-2F Seasprite
Motto: Nunquam Non Paratus

USS Blakely (FF-1072) was a Knox-class destroyer escort, originally designated as DE-1072 and reclassified as a frigate (1975) in the United States Navy. Her primary mission of ASW remained unchanged.


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