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Knox-class frigate (1973)
USS
Moinester
(FF-1097)
|
History
|
United States
|
Name
| Moinester
|
Namesake
| LTJG Robert William Moinester
|
Ordered
| 25 August 1966
|
Builder
| Avondale Shipyard
,
Westwego, Louisiana
|
Yard number
| 1165
|
Laid down
| 25 August 1972
|
Launched
| 12 May 1973
|
Sponsored by
| Mrs. Gertrude Mahoney Moinester, mother of namesake
|
Acquired
| 17 October 1974
|
Commissioned
| 2 November 1974
|
Decommissioned
| 28 July 1994
|
Identification
| FF-1097
|
Motto
|
- Mare est vita Mea
- The Sea is My Life
|
Fate
| Transferred to
Egypt
, 28 June 1994
|
Badge
| |
Egypt
|
Name
| Rasheed
|
Leased:
|
28 June 1994
|
Purchased:
|
25 March 1998
|
Identification
| F966
|
Status
| in active service, as of 2017
[update]
[1]
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General characteristics
|
Class and type
| Knox
-class
frigate
|
Displacement
| 3,011 tons (3,877 full load)
|
Length
| 438 ft (134 m)
|
Beam
| 46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
|
Draft
| 24 ft 9 in (7.54 m)
|
Propulsion
|
- 2 × CE 1200psi boilers
- 1 Westinghouse geared turbine
- 1 shaft, 35,000 shp (26,000 kW)
|
Speed
| over 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
|
Complement
| 18 officers, 267 enlisted
|
Sensors and
processing systems
|
- AN/SPS-40 Air Search Radar
- AN/SPS-67 Surface Search Radar
- AN/SQS-26
Sonar
- AN/SQR-18
Towed array sonar
system
- Mk68
Gun Fire Control System
|
Electronic warfare
& decoys
| AN/SLQ-32 Electronics Warfare System
|
Armament
| |
Aircraft carried
| one
SH-2 Seasprite
(LAMPS I) helicopter
|
USS
Moinester
(FF-1097)
was a
Knox
-class
frigate
. The ship was named for
LTJG
Robert W. Moinester who was killed in action during the
Battle of Hu?
on 31 January 1968 and was posthumously awarded the
Silver Star
.
[2]
Moinester
was christened by Mrs. Gertrude Mahoney Moinester, the mother of the ship's namesake and
ship sponsor
.
[3]
Design and description
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The
Knox
-class design was derived from the
Brooke
-class frigate
modified to extend range and without a long-range missile system. The ships had an
overall length
of 438 feet (133.5 m), a
beam
of 47 feet (14.3 m) and a
draft
of 25 feet (7.6 m). They
displaced
4,066 long tons (4,131 t) at full load. Their crew consisted of 13 officers and 211 enlisted men.
[4]
The ships were equipped with one
Westinghouse
geared
steam turbine
that drove the single
propeller shaft
. The turbine was designed to produce 35,000
shaft horsepower
(26,000 kW), using steam provided by 2
C-E
boilers
, to reach the designed speed of 27
knots
(50 km/h; 31 mph). The
Knox
class had a range of 4,500
nautical miles
(8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at a speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph).
[5]
The
Knox
-class ships were armed with a
5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun
forward and a single
3-inch/50-caliber gun
aft. They mounted an eight-round
RUR-5 ASROC
launcher between the 5-inch (127 mm) gun and the
bridge
. Close-range anti-submarine defense was provided by two twin 12.75-inch (324 mm)
Mk 32 torpedo tubes
. The ships were equipped with a torpedo-carrying
DASH
drone helicopter; its telescoping hangar and landing pad were positioned
amidships
aft of the MACK. Beginning in the 1970s, the DASH was replaced by a
SH-2 Seasprite
LAMPS I helicopter and the hangar and landing deck were accordingly enlarged. Most ships also had the 3-inch (76 mm) gun replaced by an eight-cell
BPDMS
missile launcher in the early 1970s.
[6]
Construction and career
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]
Moinester
was decommissioned and sold to the
Egyptian Navy
and became the Egyptian frigate
Rasheed
(F966).
Awards, citations and campaign ribbons
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Notes
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]
- ^
Wertheim, Eric, ed. (2017). "Egypt".
The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems
(15th ed.).
Annapolis, Maryland
:
Naval Institute Press
. p. 172.
ISBN
978-1-59114-955-2
.
OCLC
140283156
.
- ^
"Robert William Moinester"
.
Militarytimes.com
. Retrieved
13 June
2014
.
- ^
Maritime Reporter
. June 1973.
- ^
Friedman, pp. 357?60, 425
- ^
Gardiner, Chumley & Budzbon, p. 598
- ^
Friedman, pp. 360?61; Gardiner, Chumley & Budzbon, p. 598
References
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]
- Friedman, Norman (1982).
U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History
. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
ISBN
0-87021-733-X
.
- Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen & Budzbon, Przemysław (1995).
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995
. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
ISBN
1-55750-132-7
.
- USS
Moinester
on NavSource.org
External links
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