Country: Greece.
Class, [Type]: Knox, [FF].

Builder: Avondale Shipyard, USA.
Launch date: 14 June 1969.
Commission date: 30 June 1992.
Decommission date: January 1999.

Displacement ( tons ): 3000 standard, 3960 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 133,5 x 14 x 7,5.
Main machinery: 1 x Westinghouse geared turbine ( 35000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 27.
Complement: 354 ( 24 officers ).

Guns: 1 x 1 127mm Mk42, 1 x 6 GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm.
Missiles: SAM: 1 x 8 Mk25 Sea Sparrow.
Torpedoes: 4 x 1 324mm Mk32.

Radar: Air search: AN/SPS-40; Surface search: AN/SPS-10; Fire control: AN/SPG-53A.
Sonar: AN/SQS-35, AN/SQR-18.
Helicopter: 1 x AB-212.
Comment: Ex - US Navy ship Vreeland ( FF-1068 ).

Year of visit the Black Sea:  1996 | 1998