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Type, Class: Guided Missile Destroyer Escort; Guided Missile Frigate - SCB No. 199B / 1962 - 1963; Brooke – class planned and built as DEG 6; reclassified to FFG 6
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, USA
Status:
Awarded: May 24, 1963
Laid down: July 12, 1965 (as DEG 6)
Launched: July 22, 1966 (as DEG 6)
Commissioned: November 11, 1967 (as DEG 6)
Reclassified to FFG 6: June 30, 1975
Decommissioned: January 31, 1989
Homeport: Charleston SC
Namesake: Named after and in honor of Rear Admiral Julius Augustus Furer (1880 - 1963)
Ship's Motto: "Nulli Praeda" - We Are A Prize For No One
Displacement: 2,620 tons (std), 3,400 tons (full)
Length: 390' 0" (wl), 414' 6" (oa)
Beam: 44' 0" (extreme)
Draft: 24' 0" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 Foster Wheeler 1200-psi boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27 kts
Range: 4,000 nm @ 20 knots
Complement: 17 / 219
Missiles: 1 single arm Mk22 Mod 0 launcher for Tartar / Standard-MR SAMs (16)
Guns: 1 - 5"/38 Mk30 Gun (1x1) (350 rounds)
ASW Weapons: 1 Mk16 ASROC launcher (1x8) (16 missiles), 6 - 12.75" (324mm) Mk 32 torpedo tubes (2x3) / Mk 46 torpedos (18)
Radars: AN/SPS-10F (surface), AN/SPS-52 (3-D air)
Sonars: AN/SQS-26AX
Fire Control Systems: 1 - Mk56 Mod 43 Gun FCS, 1 - Mk74 Mod 2/6 missile FCS, 1 - AN/SPG-51C missile radar, 1 - Mk114 Mod 10/13 ASW FCS
Helicopter: 1 - SH-2 LAMPS Helicopter
COMMANDING OFFICER
11 November 1967 to 2 July 1968
The ship was decommissioned on January 31, 1989
Leased to Pakistan January 31, 1989. Renamed as the PNS (Pakistani Naval Service) BADR D-161.
She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 2 February 1994, and disposed of by Navy title transfer to the United States Maritime Administration, 28 March 1994
Sold March 29 1994 for scrap
USS Julius A. Furer FFG-6
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