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USS Valdez
Knox-class frigate (1973) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Valdez (FF-1096) is the forty-fifth Knox-class frigate and was built by Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana, and originally designated as an ocean escort (DE-1096). Commissioned in the United States Navy from 1974 to 1991, she was the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for a Spanish-descended American war hero. In 1998, Valdez was leased to Taiwan and renamed Yi Yang (FF-939).
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Name | USS Valdez |
Ordered | 25 August 1966 |
Builder | Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana |
Laid down | 30 June 1972 |
Launched | 24 March 1973 |
Acquired | 12 July 1974 |
Commissioned | 27 July 1974 |
Decommissioned | 16 December 1991 |
Stricken | 11 January 1995 |
Motto | Courageous Combatant |
Fate | Transferred to Taiwan, April 1998 |
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Name | Yi Yang |
Acquired | 29 April 1998 |
Commissioned | 18 October 1999 |
Identification | F 939 |
Status | in active service |
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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) |
Draught | 24 ft 9 in (7.54 m) |
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Speed | over 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
Complement | 18 officers, 267 enlisted |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | AN/SLQ-32 Electronics Warfare System |
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Aircraft carried | 1 x SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter |
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