USS Bowen
USS Bowen (FF-1079) | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Bowen |
| Namesake | Harold G. Bowen, Sr. |
| Ordered | 25 August 1966 |
| Builder | Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana |
| Laid down | 11 July 1969 |
| Launched | 2 May 1970 |
| Acquired | 17 May 1971 |
| Commissioned | 22 May 1971 |
| Decommissioned | 30 June 1994 |
| Stricken | 11 January 1995 |
| Motto | Protect and Preserve |
| Fate | Transferred to Turkey, 22 February 2002 |
| Turkey | |
| Name | TCG Akdeniz |
| Acquired | 30 June 1994 |
| Decommissioned | 2011 |
| Identification | F-257 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Knox-class frigate |
| Displacement | 3,220 tons (4,201 full load) |
| Length | 438 ft 0 in (133.5 m) |
| Beam | 46 ft 9 in (14.2 m) |
| Draft | 24 ft 9 in (7.5 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | over 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Complement | 18 officers, 267 enlisted |
| Sensors & processing systems |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys | AN/SLQ-32 electronics warfare system |
| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 × SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter |
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USS Bowen (DE-1079/FF-1079) was a Knox-class frigate of the United States Navy. She was named for Vice Admiral Harold G. Bowen, Sr. (1883–1965), former chief of the Naval Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research, who was deceased at the time of her commissioning. Admiral Bowen's son and namesake, Harold G. Bowen, Jr., who also retired as a vice admiral, presided over the U.S. Navy's 1969 inquiry into the Pueblo incident.