The [i]USS Roark[/i], awaits the cutting torches at the shipbreakers on 19th February, 2004 in the Port of Brownsville. The Roark was a Knox Class Destroyer Escort whose designation was changed to Frigate in 1975.

Pertinent details:
CLASS: Knox (As Built) FY / SCB No.: 64/199C
Displacement:3020 tons (std), 4065 tons (full) Dimensions:438'(oa), 415' (wl) x 46' 9" x 24' 9"
Armament: 1 x 5"/54 Mk 42, 1 ASROC Mk16 (16 missiles), 4-324mm Mk 32 (4x1 fixed) tubes / Mk 46 torpedos
Machinery: 2 CE 1200psi boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27 knots Range: 4,500 nm @ 20 knots Crew: 13 / 211
Radars: AN/SPS-10 (surface), AN/SPS-40 (air), AN/SPS-58 threat warning in some ships
Sonars: AN/SQS-26CX, AN/SQS-35 IVDS in FF-1052, 1056, 1063-1071, 1073-1076, 1078-1097
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Todd Shipbuilding, Seattle WA 2 February 1966
Launched 27 April 1967, Commissioned 22 November 1969
Reclassified Frigate (FF-1053) on 30 June 1975
Assigned to Naval Reserve Force, Pacific, at San Francisco CA 1 June 1987
Decommissioned 14 December 1991, Stricken 11 January 1995
Fate: contract for scrapping awarded 13 October 2003 to
International Shipbreaking Corp., Brownsville TX
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