Country: Turkey.
Class, [Type]: Knox, [FF].
Callsign: TBOH ( )
Builder: Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, USA.
Launch date: 20 March 1971.
Commission date: 5 June 1994.
Decommission date: 2001.
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: 288 ( 20 officers ).
Guns: 1 x 1 127mm Mk42, 1 x 6 GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm.
Missiles: SSM: 8 x Harpoon; A/S: 1 x 8 ACROC Mk16 ( has 2 cells modified to fire Harpoon ).
Torpedoes: 2 x 2 324mm Mk32.
Radars: Air search: AN/SPS-40; Surface search: AN/SPS-67; Fire control: AN/SPG-53D.
Sonars: AN/SQS-26CX.
Helicopters: 1 x AB-212.
Comment: Ex - USS McCandless ( FF-1084 ).
F250 Muavenet
F251 Adatepe
F252 Kocatepe
F253 Zafer
F254 Ege
F255 Karadeniz
F256 Akdeniz
FF1056 Connole
FF1078 Josef Hewes
FF1081 Aylwin
FF1082 Elmer Montgomery
FF1084 MacCandless
FF1085 Donald B. Beary
FF1091 Miller
FF1093 Capodano
FF1094 Pharris
FF1095 Truett
FF1096 Valdez
FF1097 Moinester
F458 Makedonia