USS Badger (FF-1071)
USS Badger (FF-1071) |
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Career (US) | |
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Ordered: | 22 July 1964 |
Builder: | Todd Pacific Shipyards - Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California |
Laid down: | 17 February 1968 |
Launched: | 7 December 1968 |
Acquired: | 20 November 1970 |
Commissioned: | 1 December 1970 |
Decommissioned: | 20 December 1991 |
Struck: | 11 January 1995 |
Motto: | Honor Duty Valor |
Fate: | sunk as a target, 22 July 1998 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Knox-class frigate |
Displacement: | 3,249 tons (4,245 full load) |
Length: | 438 ft (133.5 m) |
Beam: | 46 ft 9 in (14.25 m) |
Draught: | 24 ft 9 in (7.6 m) |
Propulsion: | 2 × CE 1200psi boilers 1 Westinghouse geared turbine 1 shaft, 35,000 shp (26 MW) |
Speed: | over 27 knots (50 km/h) |
Range: | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) @ 20 knots (37 km/h) |
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: | one Mk-16 8 cell missile launcher for ASROC and Harpoon missiles one Mk-42 5-inch/54 caliber gun Mark 46 torpedoes from four single tube launchers) one Mk-25 BPDMS launcher for Sea Sparrow missiles |
Aircraft carried: | one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter |
USS Badger (FF-1071) was a Knox-class destroyer escort, originally designated as DE-1071 and reclassified as a frigate in 1975 in the United States Navy. Her primary mission of ASW remained unchanged. This ship was not the first to bear the name. The first USS Badger (DD-126) was named for Commodore Oscar C. Badger (a cousin of Secretary of the Navy George Edmund Badger), the father of Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, the son of the commodore and the father of the admiral, was also honored by the naming of the destroyer USS Charles J. Badger (DD-657) (q.v.), and the grandfather of Admiral Oscar C. Badger. This Badger (FF-1071) honors all four men.
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