USS Ainsworth
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Ainsworth |
| Namesake: | Walden L. Ainsworth |
| Ordered: | 25 August 1966 |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana |
| Laid down: | 11 June 1971 |
| Launched: | 15 April 1972 |
| Acquired: | 1 February 1973 |
| Commissioned: | 31 March 1973 |
| Reclassified: | FF-1090, 30 June 1975 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 May 1994 |
| Motto: | Parata Pugnare |
| Fate: | Transferred to Turkey, 27 May 1994 |
| Struck: | 11 January 1995 |
 Turkey
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| Name: | TCG Ege |
| Acquired: | 27 May 1994 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 March 2005 |
| Identification: | F 256 |
| Fate: | Museum ship, Izmir, Turkey |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Knox-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 3,201 tons (4,182 tons full load) |
| Length: | 438 ft (134 m) |
| Beam: | 46 ft 9 in (14.25 m) |
| Draft: | 24 ft 9 in (7.54 m) |
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| Speed: | over 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Complement: | 18 officers, 267 enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
AN/SLQ-32 Electronics Warfare System |
| Armament: |
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| Aircraft carried: | one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter |
USS Ainsworth (DE/FF-1090) was a Knox-class frigate named for Vice Admiral Walden L. Ainsworth (1886–1960). Ainsworth (DE-1090) was laid down at Westwego, Louisiana, on 11 June 1971 by Avondale Shipyards, Inc.; launched on 15 April 1972; sponsored by Mrs. Katherine Gardner Ainsworth, the widow of Vice Admiral Ainsworth; and commissioned on 31 March 1973 at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia, Lt. Comdr. Terrence E. Siple in command.
Following fitting out, the new ocean escort departed her home port, Norfolk, on 11 June and headed for Port Everglades, Florida, to prepare for sensor tests and calibration. She then proceeded to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba for shakedown training. While the members of her crew were becoming familiar with their ship and their duties, Ainsworth visited Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and then proceeded on to La Guaira, Venezuela, where she joined warships of four other navies in a voyage to Maracaibo to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Lake Maracaibo, a naval victory which helped Venezuela to win her independence.
En route home, the ship made recruiting stops at New Orleans and Miami before reaching Norfolk on 16 August and beginning preparation for her post-shakedown overhaul. She got underway on 16 October and, two days later, entered the Charleston Naval Shipyard in South Carolina. Less than a week after the work started, it was interrupted by rising tension in the Middle East; and Ainsworth was placed in a 36-hour ready standby status so that she would be able, if necessary, to race to the Mediterranean. However, the stressful situation soon eased sufficiently for her to resume the repairs which were completed late in February 1974.
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