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.jpg) USS Miller (FF-1091) |
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| Career (US) |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | August 25, 1966 |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana |
| Laid down: | August 6, 1971 |
| Launched: | June 3, 1972 |
| Acquired: | April 13, 1973 |
| Commissioned: | June 30, 1973 |
| Decommissioned: | October 15, 1991 |
| Struck: | January 11, 1995 |
| Motto: | Courage-Devotion |
| Fate: | sold to Turkey as a hulk (July 19, 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 tons (4,182 tons 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) |
| Aircraft carried: | one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter |
USS Miller (FF-1091), originally (DE-1091) was a Knox class frigate of 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.
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 designated 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.
References
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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