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