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USS Roark
FF 1053 (Knox Class)
Authorized: July 22, 1964
Builder: TODD PAC/SEATTLE
Laid Down: February 2, 1966
Launched: April 24, 1967
Delivery Date: November 14, 1969
Commissioned: November 22, 1969
Decommissioned: December 14, 1991
Fate: Stricken, to be disposed of
by Security Assistance Program
Planned
Disposition: TO BE SCRAPPED
Berthed: NAVAL INACTIVE SHIP MAINTENANCE
FACILITY (NISMF), BREMERTON, WA
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Ships data contributed by:
Jim Wassman
We are seeking information on the USS Roark and her crews.
Files and photos may be
E-mailed to us and we will incorporate them into this page. When enough
information has been assembled we will then build the ship her
own section.
Mark Roberts is handling all pages and
E-mails concerning the Knox & Brooke class Frigates.
The Knox Class as Constructed
Displacement: 4,260 tons fully loaded.
Length: 438'
Beam: 47'
Draught: 16' (keel); 26' (Sonar dome)
Machinery: 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.
Guns: 1 FMC 5" 54 cal Mk-42
Torpedoes: MK 32
Officers: 23
Enlisted: 263
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