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| USS Moinester (FF-1097) | |
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 USS Moinester (FF-1097) | |
| Career (United States) |  |
| Name: | USS Moinester (FF-1097) |
| Ordered: | 25 August 1966 |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana |
| Yard number: | 1165 |
| Laid down: | 25 August 1972 |
| Launched: | 12 May 1973 |
| Acquired: | 17 October 1974 |
| Commissioned: | 2 November 1974 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 July 1994 |
| Motto: |
Mare est vita Mea The Sea is My Life |
| Fate: | Transferred to Egypt, 28 June 1994 |
| Career (Egypt) |  |
| Name: | Rasheed (F966) |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2007[update][1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Knox-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 3,011 tons (3,877 full load) |
| Length: | 438 ft (134 m) |
| Beam: | 46 ft 9 in (14.25 m) |
| Draught: | 24 ft 9 in (7.54 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 & 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 |
The USS Moinester (FF-1097) was a Knox class frigate. It was propelled by one Westinghouse steam turbine with a total of 35,000 shp. It was decommissioned and sold to the Egyptian Navy and the Moinester became the Egyptian frigate Rasheed (F966). As of 2015[update], Rasheed remained active in the Egyptian Navy.[1]
Moinester was the only ship of the Knox class with a dehydrator unit installed on her reduction gears.
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wertheim, Eric, ed (2007). "Egypt". The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems (15th ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-1-59114-955-2. OCLC 140283156.
References
External links
- USS Moinester (DE 1097)
- Naval Vessel Registry - FF1097
- Navsource images
- A Sailor's Homepage: http://FF1097.dancom.com; alt: http://www,dancom.com/ff1097
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