USS Whipple (FF-1062)

USS Whipple in 1975
History
United States
Name	Whipple
Ordered	22 July 1964
Builder	Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle, Washington
Laid down	24 April 1967
Launched	12 April 1968
Acquired	13 August 1970
Commissioned	22 August 1970
Decommissioned	14 February 1992
Stricken	11 January 1995
Identification	FF-1062
Motto	Resources Beyond Calculation
Fate	Transferred to Mexico 10 April 2002
Mexico
Name	Mina
Acquired	10 April 2002
Identification	F-214
Status	In active service
General characteristics
Class and type	Knox-class frigate
Displacement	3,159 tons (4,122 full load)
Length	438 ft (134 m)
Beam	46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
Draft	24 ft 9 in (7.54 m)
Propulsion	2 × CE 1200psi boilers 1 Westinghouse geared turbine 1 shaft, 35,000 shp (26,000 kW)
Speed	over 27 knots (50 km/h)
Range	4,500 nautical miles (8,330 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
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) one Mk-25 BPDMS launcher for Sea Sparrow missiles, later replaced by one Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried	one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter

USS Whipple (DE-1062/FF-1062) was a Knox-class frigate commissioned in the United States Navy from 1970 to 1995. In 2002, Whipple was donated to the Mexican Navy and renamed ARM Mina (F-214).