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United States | |
Name | USS Julius A. Furer |
Namesake | Julius A. Furer |
Ordered | 24 May 1963 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 12 July 1965 |
Launched | 22 July 1966 |
Acquired | 3 November 1967 |
Commissioned | 11 November 1967 |
Decommissioned | 31 January 1989 |
Stricken | 2 February 1994 |
Fate | Disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 28 March 1994 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Brooke-class frigate |
Displacement | 3,426 tons full |
Length | 414 ft (126 m) |
Beam | 44 ft (13 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 27.2 knots (50.4 km/h; 31.3 mph) |
Range | 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) |
Complement | 14 officers, 214 crew |
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Aircraft carried | SH-2 Seasprite |
USS Julius A. Furer (FFG-6) was a Brooke-class frigate in the United States Navy.
Julius A. Furer was launched 22 July 1966 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; and sponsored by Mrs. Julius A. Furer, widow of Rear Admiral Julius A. Furer. She was commissioned on 11 November 1967 at the Boston Naval Shipyard.