USS Talbot (FFG-4)

History
United States
Namesake	Silas Talbot
Ordered	24 May 1963
Builder	Bath Iron Works
Laid down	4 May 1964
Launched	6 January 1966
Acquired	14 April 1967
Commissioned	22 April 1967
Decommissioned	30 September 1988
Stricken	29 November 1993
Fate	Sold for scrap on 9 March 1994
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General characteristics
Class and type	Brooke-class frigate
Displacement	3,426 tons full
Length	414 feet
Beam	44 feet
Draft	14 feet 6 inches
Propulsion	2 pressure fired boilers of German design, 1 General Electric geared turbine, 35,000 shp, 1 shaft
Speed	27.2 knots (50 km/h)
Range	4,000 nautical miles (7,000 km)
Complement	14 officers, 214 crew
Sensors and processing systems	AN/SPS-52 3D air search radar AN/SPS-10 surface search radar AN/SPG-51 missile fire control radar AN/SQS-26 bow mounted sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys	AN/SLQ-32
Armament	1 × 5"/38 caliber gun 1 × Mk 22 RIM-24 Tartar/RIM-66 Standard missile launcher (16 missiles) 1 × 8 cell ASROC launcher 2 × 3 12.75 in (324 mm) Mk 32 torpedo tubes, Mk 46 torpedoes 2 × MK 37 torpedo tubes (fixed, stern, removed later)
Aircraft carried	SH-2 Seasprite

The USS Talbot (FFG-4) was the fourth Brooke-class frigate guided missile frigate and laid down on 4 May 1964 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corp.; launched on 6 January 1966; sponsored by Miss Frances K. Talbot; and commissioned on 22 April 1967. The ship was named for U.S. Navy Captain Silas Talbot.