U S S Ainsworth
by Lin Grosvenor
Title
U S S Ainsworth
Artist
Lin Grosvenor
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Description
Photo taken as she left Norfolk en-route to deployment.
USS AINSWORTH was the 39th KNOX - class frigate and one of the eight ships of her class transfered to the Naval Reserve Force serving as Reserve Training Frigates (FFT). Each of the eight Reserve Training Frigates had its own reserve crew, and was also assigned four "nucleus crews" which would man the 32 decommissioned KNOX - class frigates in the case of a reactivation of these ships.
USS AINSWORTH (FFT 1090) was decommissioned on May 27, 1994, and was leased to Turkey the same day. There she was recommissioned as EGE. Stricken from the Navy list on January 11, 1995, the ship was finally purchased by Turkey on May 15, 1999.
General Characteristics: Awarded: August 25, 1966
Keel laid: June 11, 1971
Launched: April 15, 1972
Commissioned: March 31, 1973
Decommissioned: May 27, 1994
Builder: Avondale Shipyards, New Orleans, La.
Propulsion system: 2 - 1200 psi boilers; 1 geared turbine, 1 shaft; 35,000 shaft horsepower
Length: 438 feet (133.5 meters)
Beam: 47 feet (14.4 meters)
Draft: 25 feet (7.6 meters)
Displacement: approx. 4,200 tons full load
Speed: 27 knots
Armament: one Mk-16 missile launcher for ASROC and Harpoon missiles, one Mk-42 5-inch/54 caliber gun, Mk-46 torpedoes from single tube launchers, one 20mm Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft: one SH-2F (LAMPS I) helicopter
Crew: 18 officers, 267 enlisted
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