USS Joseph Hewes (FF-1078)

USS Joseph Hewes (FF-1078)
Career (US)
Ordered:	25 August 1966
Builder:	Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana
Laid down:	14 May 1969
Launched:	7 March 1970
Acquired:	6 April 1971
Commissioned:	24 April 1971
Decommissioned:	30 June 1994
Struck:	11 January 1995
Fate:	Transferred to Taiwan as Lan Yang (FF-935)
General characteristics
Class & type:	Knox-class frigate
Displacement:	3,211 tons (4,192 full load)
Length:	438 ft (134 m)
Beam:	46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
Draught:	24 ft 9 in (7.54 m)
Propulsion:	2 × CE 1200psi boilers 1 Westinghouse geared turbine 1 shaft, 35,000 SHP (26 MW)
Speed:	over 27 knots
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, later replaced by Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried:	one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter

USS Joseph Hewes (FF-1078) was a Knox class frigate of the US Navy. Constructed by Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana and laid down 14 May 1969, launched 7 March 1970 and delivered 6 April 1971. She was commissioned 24 April 1971, decommissioned 30 June 1994 and struck 11 January 1995. She was disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP), transferred, cash sale, ex-US fleet hull foreign military sale, transferred to as Taiwan as Lan Yang (FF-935).

References [edit]

• This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.

External links [edit]

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