USS ''Donald B. Beary'' (FF-1085) was a built for the

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

Design and description

The ''Knox'' class design was derived from the modified to extend range and without a long-range missile system. The ships had an

overall length The overall length (OAL) of an ammunition cartridge is a measurement from the base of the brass shell casing to the tip of the bullet, seated into the brass casing. Cartridge overall length, or "COL", is important to safe functioning of reloads i ...

of , a beam of and a

draft Draft, The Draft, or Draught may refer to: Watercraft dimensions * Draft (hull), the distance from waterline to keel of a vessel * Draft (sail), degree of curvature in a sail * Air draft, distance from waterline to the highest point on a vesse ...

of . They displaced at full load. Their crew consisted of 13 officers and 211 enlisted men. The ships were equipped with one Westinghouse geared steam turbine that drove the single

propeller shaft A drive shaft, driveshaft, driving shaft, tailshaft (Australian English), propeller shaft (prop shaft), or Cardan shaft (after Girolamo Cardano) is a component for transmitting mechanical power and torque and rotation, usually used to connect ...

. The turbine was designed to produce , using steam provided by 2 C-E

boiler A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications, including water heating, centr ...

s, to reach the designed speed of . The ''Knox'' class had a range of at a speed of .Gardiner, Chumley & Budzbon, p. 598 The ''Knox''-class ships were armed with a

5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun The Mark 42 5"/54 caliber gun (127mm) is a naval gun (naval artillery) mount used by the United States Navy and other countries. It consisted of the Mark 18 gun and Mark 42 gun mount. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fires a p ...

forward and a single

3-inch/50-caliber gun The 3"/50 caliber gun (spoken "three-inch fifty-caliber") in United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile in diameter, and the barrel was 50 calibers long (barrel length is 3 in × 50 = ). Different guns (identifi ...

aft. They mounted an eight-round RUR-5 ASROC, ASROC launcher between the 5-inch (127 mm) gun and the bridge (nautical), bridge. Close-range anti-submarine defense was provided by two twin Mark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes, Mk 32 torpedo tubes. The ships were equipped with a torpedo-carrying Gyrodyne QH-50, DASH drone helicopter; its telescoping hangar and landing pad were positioned amidships aft of the mack (naval architecture), mack. Beginning in the 1970s, the DASH was replaced by a SH-2 Seasprite LAMPS I helicopter and the hangar and landing deck were accordingly enlarged. Most ships also had the 3-inch (76 mm) gun replaced by an eight-cell RIM-7 Sea Sparrow#Basic point defense missile system (BPDMS), BPDMS missile launcher in the early 1970s.Friedman, pp. 360–61; Gardiner, Chumley & Budzbon, p. 598

Construction and career

The ship was leased to Turkey in 1994 and subsequently sold to them, as the ''Tepe''-class frigate TCG ''Karadeniz'' (F-255). She was decommissioned and scrapped in 2006.

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

References
USS ''Donald B. Beary'' on NavSource.org

Notes

References

* * *

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Donald B. Beary (FF-1085) Ships built in Bridge City, Louisiana Knox-class frigates 1971 ships Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Turkish Navy Cold War frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States