USS Talbot (FFG-4)
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 United States
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| 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 |
| Struck: | 29 November 1993 |
| Fate: | sold for scrap 9 March 1994 |
| 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 Foster-Wheeler boilers, 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 |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
AN/SLQ-32 |
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| Armor: | SH-2 Seasprite |
The USS Talbot (FFG-4) was the fourth BROOKE – class 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, Comdr. Edwin E. Woods, Jr., in command. The ship was named for US Navy Captain Silas Talbot.
On 8 July, the new guided-missile escort ship departed Hampton Roads, Virginia, for Puerto Rico for shakedown and missile system trials. Talbot next headed north and arrived at her home port, Newport, Rhode Island, on 16 September. The ship conducted special operations off the Virginia Capes from 16 October to 18 November and then spent most of her time until the spring of 1968 undergoing post-shakedown availability. Following firing exercises at the Atlantic Fleet weapons range and antisubmarine operations late in April, the destroyer escort participated in the search for missing nuclear submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) in May. She devoted the rest of the year to operations along the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean.
On 31 January 1969, Talbot departed Newport for the Mediterranean and was deployed with the 6th Fleet until she returned on 11 July. After overhaul at the Boston Naval Shipyard was completed on 1 April 1970, Talbot conducted local operations before returning to the missile range off Puerto Rico in May for weapons tests, followed by refresher training and four months at Newport. On 28 October 1970, she headed for the Mediterranean and her second tour with the 6th Fleet. The deployment ended at Newport on 2 May 1971, and she devoted the remainder of the year to east coast operations.
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