USS Miller (FF-1091)
.jpg) USS Miller (FF-1091) | |
| Career (US) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Miller |
| Namesake: | Doris "Dorie" Miller |
| Ordered: | 25 August 1966 |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana |
| Laid down: | 6 August 1971 |
| Launched: | 3 June 1972 |
| Acquired: | 13 April 1973 |
| Commissioned: | 30 June 1973 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 October 1991 |
| Struck: | 11 January 1995 |
| Motto: | Courage-Devotion |
| Fate: | Sold to Turkey as a hulk (19 July 1999); subsequently sunk as a target in the Turkish Seawolf 2001 naval exercise June 2001 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Knox-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 3,201 long tons (3,252 t) light 4,182 long tons (4,249 t) full load |
| Length: | 438 ft (134 m) |
| Beam: | 46 ft 9 in (14.25 m) |
| Draft: | 24 ft 9 in (7.54 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × CE 1,200 psi (8.3 MPa) 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 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun Mark 46 torpedoes from four single tube launchers) |
| Aircraft carried: | one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter |
USS Miller (FF-1091), originally (DE-1091) was a Knox-class destroyer escorts in the United States Navy. She was named for Cook Third Class Doris "Dorie" Miller, who was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions at the attack on Pearl Harbor.[1]
Miller, a 3963-ton (4,027 t) Knox-class escort ship, was built at Westwego, Louisiana. Commissioned in June 1973, her active service was performed with the Atlantic Fleet, including deployments to the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, the Persian Gulf and the Black Sea. In July 1975, she was reclassified as a frigate and redesignated FF-1091. Miller transferred to the Naval Reserve Force in January 1982, and thereafter was employed in the western Atlantic and Caribbean areas. She decommissioned in October 1991 and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 1995.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "USS Miller (DE/FF-1091)". Naval History & Heritage Command. 2010. Retrieved 29 October 2011.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
- 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
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS Miller (FF-1091). |
- Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive : USS Miller (DE 1091)
- USS Miller (DE 1091) website
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