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- Code Number:
- MYNV18P05_03
- Title:
- USS Hooper (DE 1026), USN, United States Navy
- Specifications:
Class: Courtney
Type: SCB No. 72 / 1954 - 55
Number in Class: 10
Displacement: 1,314 tons (light), 1,877 tons (full)
Length: 308' (wl), 314' 6" (oa)
Beam: 36' 9" (extreme)
Draft: 19' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 De Laval geared turbine; 20,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 26 kts
Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots
Complement: 12 / 161
Guns: 4 - 3"/50 (76mm) Mk33 Guns (2x2)
ASW Weapons: 1 Mk 108 ASW rocket launcher, 6 - 12.75" (324mm) Mk 32 torpedo tubes (2x3) / Mk 46 torpedos
Radars: AN/SPS-5 (surface), AN/SPS-6C (air)
Sonars: AN/SQS-4
# Fire Control Systems: Mk63 Gun FCS, Mk105 Underwater Battery FCS Hooper (DE 1026)
Building and Operational Data:
4 January 1956: Keel laid at the Bethlehem-Pacific Coast Steel Corp., San Francisco, Cal.
# 1 August 1957: Launched and christened, sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Hooper, daughter of Rear Admiral Hooper
# 18 March 1958: Commissioned at San Francisco, Lcdr J. K. Leslie in command, assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet Cruiser-Destroyer Force as a unit of Escort Squadron 3 at San Diego, Cal.
# 1 February 1968: CortRon 3 disestablished, transferrred to DesRon 31 (CruDesFlot 9)
# 6 June 1973: Decommissioned, Stricken
# 20 February 1974: Sold for scrapping - Keywords:
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