| Career (US) | |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | July 22, 1964 |
| Builder: | Todd Pacific Shipyards - Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California |
| Laid down: | July 15, 1967 |
| Launched: | May 11, 1968 |
| Acquired: | July 17, 1970 |
| Commissioned: | July 25, 1970 |
| Decommissioned: | July 02, 1992 |
| Struck: | January 11, 1995 |
| Motto: | Valor Honor |
| Fate: | Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling March 31, 2003 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Knox-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 3,243 tons (4,244 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 (31 mph; 50 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles (8,330 km) @ 20 knots (23 mph; 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 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 Mk-25 BPDMS launcher for Sea Sparrow missiles later replaced by one Phalanx CIWS |
| Aircraft carried: | one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter |
USS Francis Hammond (DE/FF-1067) is the ninth Knox-class frigate, named in honor of Hospitalman Francis Colton Hammond, a Medal of Honor recipient. She was originally designed as a Knox-class ocean escort (DE-1067), and was built by Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California. She was propelled by one Westinghouse steam turbine with a total of 35,000 shp. Keel laid 15 July 1967; launched 11 May 1968; sponsored by Mrs. Phyllis Hammond Smith (widow of Hospitalman Hammond); and commissioned at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Long Beach, California on 25 July 1970, Commander E. Elmore in command.
As part of the Navy's 1975 ship reclassification, Francis Hammond was reclassified as a frigate (FF-1067) on 30 June 1975.
Decommissioned 2 July 1992 in Long Beach, California after twenty-one years and nine months in active commission and struck from the Navy Register on 11 January 1995. Francis Hammond is currently assigned to the Security Assistance program, for cash sale and is in the custody of the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Bremerton, Washington.
References : USS Francis Hammond on NavSource.org
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