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KOCATEPE (F252)

Post by shipstamps » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:17 pm


Built as an ocean escort by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co., Seattle, Wash. For the USS Navy.
06 January 1969 Keel laid down.
01 August 1970 launched under the name USS REASONER (DE-1063), christened by Mrs. James C. Curry and Mrs. Robert Svinger. She was named after Frank Stanley Reasoner who was born on 16 September 1937 in Spokane, Wash.; he died in action near Danang, Vietnam on 12 July 1965.
USS REASONER was one of the Knox class of which 46 were built.
Displacement 3.011 tons standard, 3.877 tons full load, dim. 133.5 x 14.4 x 7.6m. (draught)
Powered by one Westinghouse steam turbine, 35.000 shp. Single screw. Speed 27 knots.
Two Babcock and Wilcox boilers supplied steam.
Range 4300 miles by a speed of 20 knots.
Armament: One Mark 25 Sea Sparrow missile launcher, two quadruple Harpoon launch canisters (total 8 missiles), one 5 inch gun, one Asroc launcher, four fixed Mark 32 ASW torpedo tubes.
Carried one helicopter.
Crew: 22 Officers and 261 ratings.
Average building cost per ship of this class was $31 million.
31 July 1971 commissioned under command of Comdr. Francisco Velazquez-Suarez.

She was based in San Diego, Calif. After commissioned.
22 January 1972 she sailed to Long Beach, Calif. For modification and equipment additions. 09 November she moved again to San Diego.
After refresher training in the southern California operations area and two months of normal operations in the waters off San Diego, she sailed for her first deployment to the western Pacific.
After six months employment in the Far East, she returned to San Diego in late September 1973.
Then she operated out of San Diego.
30 June 1975 she was reclassified a frigate (FF-1063).
Thereafter I could not find much more on her deployments.
1979 The hangar and flight deck were enlarged.
Between 1982-88 the Knox class frigates Sea Sparrow were replaced by Phalanx missile.

30 August 1993 decommissioned, and loaned to the Turkish navy the same day, for a five-year lease, renamed KOCATEPE (F252).
Under Turkish flag her armament was: 1 – 127mm gun. 1 x MK15 Phalax missiles. 4 Harpoon SSM. ASROC Mk 16 launcher. 2 – 324mm Mk 32 twin launcher for Mk 46’s
One helicopter AB 212 ASW.
This class of ships were old, and the steam-based machinery was expensive to operate, and difficult to maintain.
1999 She was bought by the Turkish Navy.
2002 Decommissioned.

Turkey 2003 700.000L sg?, scott?

Source: Warships of the US Navy by S.I Morison & J. S. Rowe. http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/escort/de1063.htm http://www.turkishnavy.net/tepee.htm
Jane’s Fighting ships 2002/2003, 2003/2004

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Re: KOCATEPE (F252)

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Feb 13, 2018 7:53 pm

04 May 2005 sunk as a target in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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