USS Kirk
 FF 1087 (Knox Class)

Photo by: John Daniels

Authorized:       August 25, 1966
Builder:          Avondale, LA
Laid Down:        December 4, 1970
Launched:         September 25, 1971
Commissioned:     September 9, 1972
Decommissioned:   August 6, 1993
Fate:             Lease to Taiwaneese Navy 
                  August 6, 1993, renamed 
                  Fen Yang

Purchased 
by Taiwan:        September 29, 1999

We are seeking information on the USS Kirk 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.

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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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