USS Bagley (FF-1069)

USS Bagley (FF-1069)
History
United States
Ordered:	22 July 1964
Builder:	Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, Washington
Laid down:	22 September 1970
Launched:	24 April 1971
Acquired:	28 April 1972
Commissioned:	6 May 1972
Decommissioned:	26 September 1991
Struck:	11 January 1995
Motto:	Fleets Finest
Fate:	Disposed of by Recycling, 19 September 2000
General characteristics
Class and type:	Knox-class frigate
Displacement:	3,209 tons (4,190 full load)
Length:	438 ft (133.5 m)
Beam:	46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
Draught:	24 ft 9 in (7.6 m)
Propulsion:	2 × CE 1200psi boilers 1 Westinghouse geared turbine 1 shaft, 35,000 shp (26 MW)
Speed:	over 27 knots (50 km/h)
Range:	4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) @ 20 knots (40 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, AN/WLR-1c, AN/ULQ-6c
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) (Added in Drydock, 1978) one Mk-25 BPDMS launcher for Sea Sparrow missiles, later replaced by Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried:	one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter

USS Bagley (FF-1069) was a Knox-class frigate of the United States Navy. She was the 18th ship of the Knox class, built as a destroyer escort (DE) and redesignated as a frigate (FF) in the 1975 USN ship reclassification. Bagley was the fourth ship of the USN named for Ensign Worth Bagley, the only US Navy officer killed in action during the Spanish–American War.

Bagley was laid down on 5 October 1970 at Seattle, Washington, by the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company; launched on 17 April 1971; sponsored by Mrs. Marie Louise H. Bagley, widow of Admiral David Worth Bagley and posthumous sister-in-law of Ensign Worth Bagley; and commissioned on 6 May 1972 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Commander William J. Bredbeck in command.

The escort ship conducted acceptance trials along the coasts of Washington and British Columbia and then headed south for her new home port at San Diego, California, where she arrived on 25 July 1972. The warship began a restricted availability from 31 July to 9 September. She departed San Diego on 16 September, bound for Pearl Harbor and her shakedown cruise. Bagley arrived in Pearl Harbor on 22 September and operated in Hawaiian waters into October. On the 3d of that month, she stood out of Pearl Harbor and headed for San Diego. The warship reached that port on 9 October. Over the next month, she conducted exercises out of San Diego. On 15 November, Bagley entered the Long Beach Naval Shipyard and began an extended post-shakedown availability during which her main propulsion plant was converted to use Navy distillate fuel.

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