Eugenio´s Warships - F-255 Karadeniz

Country: Turkey Turkey

Class, [Type]: Knox, [FF].

Builder: Avondale, Westwego, Louisiana, U.S.A.

Launch date: 22 May 1971.

Commission date: 29 July 1994.

Displacement ( tons ): 3.011 standard, 4.260 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 134 x 14,3 x 7,8

Main machinery: 2 x Combustion Engineering / Babcock Wilcox boilers, 1 x Westinghouse turbine ( 35.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 27.

Range ( miles ): 4.000 at 22 knots on one boiler.

Complement: 288 ( 20 officers ).

Guns: 1 x FMC 127mm/54 Mk42 Mod 10, 1 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm, 4 x 12,7mm.

Missiles: SSM: 8 x McDonnell Douglas Harpoon; A/S: 1 x Honeywell ASROC Mk16 octuple launcher ( 2 cells modified to fire Harpoon ).

Torpedoes: 4 x 324mm. Tubes Mk 32 ( 2 twin ) fixed, 22 x Honeywell Mk 46 Mod 5 torpedoes.

Radar: Air search: 1 x Lockheed SPS 40D, E/F bands; Surface search: 1 x Raytheon SPS 10F, G band; Navigation: 1 x Decca TM 1226, I band; Fire control: 1 x Western Electric SPG 53D/F, I/J bands, 1 x General Dynamics Mk90 ( for Vulcan Phalanx ).

Sonar: EDO / General Electric SQS 26 CX, bow mounted, active search and attack modes, medium frequency.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 x Loral Hycor SRBOC Mk 36, IR flares and chaff; T Mk 6 Fanfare/SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy; Prairie Masker hull and blade noise supressor; ESM/ECM: Raytheon SLQ32(V)2, radar warning.

Helicopter: 1 x AB 212 ASW or 1 x SH-2F Lamps I.

Callsign: TBQP ( Tango Bravo Quebec Papa )