USS Kirk (FF-1087)

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USS Kirk (FF-1087)
USS Kirk (FF-1087)
Career (US) United States Navy ensign
Ordered: August 25, 1966
Builder: Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana
Laid down: 4 December 1970
Launched: 25 September 1971
Acquired: August 27, 1972
Commissioned: 9 September 1972
Decommissioned: 6 August 1993
Struck: January 11, 1995
Fate: Transferred to Taiwan, as Fen Yang
General characteristics
Displacement: 3,221 tons (4,202 full load)
Length: 438 ft (134 m)
Beam: 46 ft 9 in (14.2 m)
Draught: 24 ft 9 in (7.5 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
and 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 Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried: one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter

USS Kirk (FF-1087) was a Knox-class destroyer escort, originally designated as DE-1087 and reclassified as a frigate (1975) in the United States Navy. Her primary mission of ASW remained unchanged. She was named for Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk.

Awarded to the Avondale Marine on 25 August 1966, Kirk was laid down on 4 December 1970, launched on 25 September 1971 and commissioned on 9 September 1972.

She served in the US Navy up until 6 August 1993, when the ship was decommissioned and leased to Taiwan. In Taiwanese service she was renamed Fen Yang with the hull number changed to 934. On September 29, 1999, the ship was finally purchased by Taiwan.

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