USS Trippe (FF-1075)
_off_New_Orleans.jpg) USS Trippe (DE / FF-1075) |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | frigate |
| Keel laying | July 19, 1968 |
| Launch | 1st November 1969 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| period of service |
September 19, 1970 - |
| Whereabouts | sold |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
4,100 ts |
| length |
133.5 meters |
| width |
14.25 meters |
| Draft |
7.6 meters |
| crew |
17 officers, 228 sailors |
| drive |
1 propeller, 1 gear turbine, 2 boilers; 35,000 wave horsepower |
| speed |
27+ knots |
| Range |
4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots |
The USS Trippe (DE / FF-1075) was a frigate of the Knox-class frigate . She served in the United States Navy from 1970 to 1992 and was the fourth ship that was named after Lieutenant John Trippe (* 1785, † 1810).
history
The keel laying of Trippe took place on July 19, 1968 at Avondale Shipyards , New Orleans . After being launched on November 1, 1969, she was commissioned with the Navy on September 19, 1970. After the test drives in the Caribbean and off Haiti , she returned to the shipyard in Boston in July 1971 , where she received a starter for Sea Sparrow missiles . She was the first smaller warship to be equipped with these weapons. The Trippe spent the following months testing the new system, in June 1972 she crossed the Panama Canal and steamed to Vietnam , where she served as an escort for aircraft carriers and also participated in coastal shelling. In December 1972, she returned to the US east coast, completing her first circumnavigation of the world.
In 1973 she was overhauled again and prepared for a LAMPS helicopter ( SH-2 Seasprite ). From August 1973 to January 1974 she was used for the first time with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean . In early 1975 the destroyer escorted again in the Indian Ocean and in the Middle East, in mid-1975 it was reclassified as a frigate as part of the reorganization of the Navy's ship classifications. At the end of 1975 a new layover period began, which lasted until May 1976. From March to July 1977 she was again in the Middle East, in the summer of 1978 for the second time in the Mediterranean. In 1979 she took part in the UNITAS -XX exercise off the South American coast, and one trip took her to West Africa.
From January to December 1980, the Trippe at Bath Iron Works in Bath , Maine was equipped with a new towing sonar system and new electronics. The following decade saw four more stays in the Mediterranean and the equipment with a Phalanx CIWS . At the beginning of the nineties it operated mostly in the Caribbean, on July 30, 1992 it was decommissioned and leased to Greece . She was commissioned by the Greek Navy in April 1993 as the Thraki (F457) . In 2001 the Trippe was officially sold and struck from the Navy ship registers.
Web links
- History of the rib in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)
- Photos of the Trippe at navsource.org (engl.)