USS Moinester (FF-1097)

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Career (US)
USS Moinester (FF-1097)
Ordered:	August 25, 1966
Builder:	Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana
Laid down:	25 August 1972
Launched:	12 May 1973
Acquired:	October 17, 1974
Commissioned:	November 2, 1974
Decommissioned:	July 28, 1994
Motto:	Mare est vita Mea The Sea is My Life
Fate:	Sold to Egypt, renamed Rasheed (F962)
General characteristics
Displacement:	3,011 tons (3,877 full load)
Length:	438 ft (134 m)
Beam:	46 ft 9 in (14.2 m)
Draught:	24 ft 9 in (7.5 m)
Propulsion:	2 × CE 1200psi boilers 1 Westinghouse geared turbine 1 shaft, 35,000 SHP (26 MW)
Speed:	over 27 knots
Complement:	18 officers, 267 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems:	AN/SPS-40 Air Search Radar AN/SPS-67 Surface Search Radar AN/SQS-26 Sonar AN/SQR-18 Towed array sonar system Mk68 Gun Fire Control System
Electronic warfare and decoys:	AN/SLQ-32 Electronics Warfare System
Armament:	one Mk-16 8 cell missile launcher for ASROC and Harpoon missiles one Mk-42 5-inch/54 caliber gun Mark 46 torpedoes from four single tube launchers)
Aircraft carried:	one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter

The USS Moinester (FF-1097) was a Knox class frigate. It was propelled by one westinghouse steam turbine with a total of 35,000 shp. It was decommissioned and sold to the Egyptian Navy and the Moinester became the Egyptian frigate Rasheed.

[edit] Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

	Joint Meritorious Unit Award
	Navy Unit Commendation
	Navy "E" Ribbon (4)
	National Defense Service Medal
	Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
	Humanitarian Service Ribbon
	Sea Service Deployment Ribbon
	Coast Guard Special Operations Service Ribbon

References : USS Moinester on NavSource.org

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v • d • e Knox-class frigate

Knox \| Roark \| Gray \| Hepburn \| Connole \| Rathburne \| Meyerkord \| W. S. Sims \| Lang \| Patterson \| Whipple \| Reasoner \| Lockwood \| Stein \| Marvin Shields \| Francis Hammond \| Vreeland \| Bagley \| Downes \| Badger \| Blakely \| Robert E. Peary \| Harold E. Holt \| Trippe \| Fanning \| Ouellet \| Joseph Hewes \| Bowen \| Paul \| Aylwin \| Elmer Montgomery \| Cook \| McCandless \| Donald B. Beary \| Brewton \| Kirk \| Barbey \| Jesse L. Brown \| Ainsworth \| Miller \| Thomas C. Hart \| Capodanno \| Pharris \| Truett \| Valdez \| *Moinester*

List of frigates of the United States Navy