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USS Badger
FF 1071 (Knox Class)
Authorized: ?
Builder: Todd Ship Yard, San Pedro
Laid Down: February 17, 1968
Launched: December 7, 1968
Commissioned: December 1, 1970
Decommissioned: December 20, 1991
Fate: Sunk as target: July 21, 1998
as a part of RIMPAC 98.
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We are seeking information on the USS Badger 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
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