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U.S.S. TRIPPE
(FF-1075)ALWAYS A CLEAN SWEEP
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USS TRIPPE (FF-1075) - a Knox-class frigate
In Commission 1970 to 1992FF-1075 Deployments - Major Events
Add a FF-1075 Shellback Initiation | Add a FF-1075 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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JUL | 1968 | - | NOV | 1969 | Ship Construction - Date Keel Laid and Date Launched |
JUL | 1968 | - | Keel Date: 29 JUL 1968 at Avondale Shipyard Inc. Westwego LA | ||
NOV | 1969 | - | Launch Date: 1 NOV 1969 | ||
DEC | 1969 | - | AUG | 1970 | Sea Trials |
SEP | 1970 | - | Commissioned: 19 SEP 1970 | ||
NOV | 1970 | - | JAN | 1971 | Refresher Training Guantanamo Bay Cuba |
FEB | 1972 | - | MAY | 1972 | Post REFTRA Shakedown Boston Naval Shipyard |
JUN | 1972 | - | DEC | 1972 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
OCT | 1972 | - | Shellback Initiation - 17 OCT 1972 - Indian Ocean | ||
NOV | 1972 | - | DEC | 1972 | Circumnavigation |
AUG | 1973 | - | JAN | 1974 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1974 | - | JUL | 1974 | Mideast |
MAR | 1974 | - | APR | 1974 | Homeport Change from Newport RI to Charleston SC |
JAN | 1975 | - | JUN | 1975 | Middle East Forces/Indian Ocean |
OCT | 1975 | - | MAY | 1976 | Regular Overhaul Charleston Naval Shipyard |
JAN | 1977 | - | AUG | 1977 | Mediterranean - Middle East - Indian Ocean |
JAN | 1977 | - | AUG | 1977 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
MAY | 1977 | - | Shellback Initiation - 4 MAY 1977 - Indian Ocean | ||
MAY | 1977 | - | Shellback Initiation - 4 MAY 1977 - Indian Ocean | ||
MAY | 1977 | - | Shellback Initiation - 4 MAY 1977 - Indian Ocean | ||
NOV | 1977 | - | JAN | 1978 | Refresher Training Guantanamo Bay Cuba |
APR | 1978 | - | OCT | 1978 | Mediterranean |
NOV | 1978 | - | JAN | 1979 | Caribbean - SHAREM XXIX ASW Exercises |
JUN | 1979 | - | OCT | 1979 | UNITAS |
OCT | 1979 | - | DEC | 1979 | West Africa -Senegal Liberia Gambia and 8 other countries |
NOV | 1979 | - | Shellback Initiation - 4 NOV 1979 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JAN | 1980 | - | DEC | 1980 | Major Overhaul Bath Maine |
JAN | 1981 | - | JUL | 1981 | Post Overhaul Sea Trials/Testing of new Harpoon Missile System |
AUG | 1981 | - | FEB | 1982 | Mediterranean |
MAR | 1983 | - | SEP | 1983 | West Africa/Mediterranean/Suez Canal/Indian Ocean/Mediterranean |
JAN | 1984 | - | FEB | 1985 | Atlantic Fleet Ops/Gulf of Mexico/New Orleans World's Fair |
MAR | 1985 | - | OCT | 1985 | Mediterranean |
DEC | 1986 | - | JUN | 1987 | Mediterranean |
JUL | 1987 | - | FEB | 1989 | Regular Overhaul Charleston/REFTRA/NGFS Guantanamo Bay Cuba |
APR | 1989 | - | APR | 1989 | Collison at Sea during Atlantic UNREP with USS PLATTE (AO-186) |
APR | 1989 | - | SEP | 1989 | Collison Repair Boston Naval Shipyard |
APR | 1989 | - | APR | 1989 | Homeport Change from Charleston SC to Boston MA |
OCT | 1989 | - | OCT | 1989 | Homeport Change from Boston MA to Newport RI |
FF-1075 General Specifications
Class: Knox-class frigate
Named for: John Trippe
Displacement: 3238 tons
Length: 438 feet
Beam: 46 feet 9 inches
Draft: 24 feet 9 in
Range: 4 500 nautical miles
Final Disposition: Transferred to Greece July 1992
USS TRIPPE (FF-1075)
The fourth Trippe (DE-1075)
was laid down on 29 July 1968 at Westwego, La., by Avondale Shipyards, Inc.; launched on 1 November 1969; sponsored by
Mrs. John S. Foster; and commissioned
at Charleston, S.C., on 19 September
1970, Comdr. Allen B. Higgenbotham in
command.
Trippe completed outfitting during the first week in February 1971, loaded ammunition at the weapons station on the 7th and 8th, and cleared Charleston
on the 9th. Following a five-week stay at Newport, R.I., the escort ship got underway on 23 March to
conduct shakedown training in the
Caribbean. During that cruise, she
visited Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Frederik-sted, St. Croix, in the American
Virgin Islands; Puerto Rico; and Andros
Island in the Bahamas. She interrupted
her shakedown cruise from 22 to 28 April to conduct a surveillance mission off the coast of Haiti just after the death of the President of Haiti,
Francois Duvalier. She resumed training on 29 April and continued it until 23 May when she headed for home. Trippe entered Newport again on 25 May and remained there until 6 July, conducting final trials between
14 and 16 June. The ship entered the Boston Naval Shipyard on 7 July and began post-shakedown
availability, which included the
installation of one sonar and two missile systems. She completed sea
trials on 9 December and returned to Newport
10 days later.
On 10 January 1972, she departed Newport for operations in
the Caribbean. On the 26th, just before reaching the Virgin Islands, Trippe received a distress call from the SS Fiona C, a merchant ship damaged by fire and in danger of running aground. A boarding party from Trippe succeeded in dropping Fiona C.'s anchor to
keep her from drifting ashore on Culebra Island. After notifying Coast Guard authorities of the ship's exact position, Trippe continued
on into the harbor at St. Thomas. From 28 January to 18 February, she
conducted a series of Standard and Sparrow
III missile test firings for the
Operational Test and Evaluation Force
and then returned north, arriving at Newport on 22 February. From then
until 28 April, she remained in the Newport
area, putting to sea only once-from 13
to 17 March-to participate in COMPTUEX 8-72. Between 28 April and 11
May, Trippe joined in LANTREADEX 4-72. She returned to Newport on 11 May and remained for almost a month.
On 5 June, she departed
Newport bound for the Pacific. She
transited the Panama Canal on 10 June and,
after stops at Oahu and Guam, joined the 7th Fleet at Subic Bay in the
Philippines on Independence Day. Five days later, Trippe, in company
with America (CVA-66), headed for
the combat zone off the coast of Vietnam.
For the next month, she conducted combat operations in the Gulf of Tonkin. She
served as a plane-guard for America
and conducted naval gunfire support missions for troops ashore in
the vicinity of Quang Tri City and of the
old imperial capital, Hue. The warship
returned to Subic Bay on 13 August.
Soon after her arrival, Trippe
was ordered to the Middle East
to fulfill missions originally assigned to damaged Warrington (DD-843). On 16 August, she departed the Philippines and, after visits to
Singapore and Ceylon, arrived in Manama, Bahrain. For almost three months, she conducted goodwill visits to
Middle Eastern ports-stopping at
Bandar Shapur, Iran; Sitrah, Bahrain;
Karachi, Pakistan; Djibouti in the French
territory of Afars and Issas; Victoria in the Seychelles Islands; Tamatave, Malagasy Republic; and Mombasa, Kenya.
At Mombasa, she turned
her duties over to Sellars (DDG-11)
on 2 November and headed back to the United
States. En route home, Trippe stopped at Lourenco Marques, Mozambique; Luanda, Angola; Dakar, Senegal; and Bermuda. On 2 December, she moored at Newport and began post-deployment standdown.
Trippe opened 1973 in port at Newport preparing for a
restricted availability at the Boston Naval Shipyard. Between 9 and 12 January, she made a brief run to Earle, N.J., to offload ammunition and, on 6
February, entered the shipyard. During
her almost five months in the yard, Trippe's
DASH flight deck and hangar were
enlarged to accommodate a light airborne multipurpose system (LAMPS) manned
helicopter for antisubmarine warfare,
antiship missile defense, search and
rescue, and general utility missions. She also received the interim surface-to-surface missile (ISSM) system. The escort ship completed her
availability on 27 June, loaded
ammunition at Charleston on the 29th, and headed for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After refresher training and missile and gunfire qualifications at Vieques Island, she operated with Carrier Division
6 late in July. Trippe returned
to Newport on 29 July to prepare for
her upcoming deployment.
On 30 August, she
departed Newport in company with Dewey
(DLG-14) and Harry E. Yarnell (DLG-17). On 7 September, she reported
for duty with the 6th Fleet at Lisbon, Portugal. Three days later, she joined units of other NATO navies in Operation "Quickshave," which ended on the 20th.
After a visit to Falmouth, England,
she headed for the eastern Mediterranean,
where she operated with Task Force (TF) 60. For the remainder of the deployment, Trippe screened TF 60 carriers, located submarines of the Soviet Mediterranean Squadron, and participated in
gunfire exercises. On 14 January 1974,
Trippe turned her duties over
to her relief at Rota, Spain, and headed home. She returned to Newport on the 24th and began a month-long, post-deployment standdown. On 28
February, she departed Newport and, on
1 March, entered her new home port, Charleston, S.C. For the remainder of the year, Trippe operated along the
east coast conducting training and
exercises.
On 9 January 1975, the
warship left Charleston and headed
for a tour of duty in the Indian Ocean. Steaming via the Cape of Good
Hope, she reported on 13 February for duty
with the Middle East Force at Mombasa,
Kenya. Four days later, Trippe headed north to Bandar Abbas, Iran, where
she arrived on the 27th. There, she
entertained the Shah's nephew, Prince Shafique,
a captain in the Imperial Iranian Navy and commander of its Destroyer Squadron 1.
From there, she voyaged on
a tour of visits to ports on the Indian Ocean littoral, among which were
Karachi, Pakistan; Djibouti, French
territory of Afars and Issas; and Hodeidah, Yemen. Her series of port visits was interrupted late in March when she was called upon to observe political conditions in Saudi
Arabia after the assassination of
King Faisal. On 1 April, she resumed
her itinerary by calling at Jidda, Saudi Arabia, to embark Saudi naval
personnel for training. From there, she
headed for Bahrain. During that voyage,
she encountered units of the Soviet Indian Ocean Squadron off Socotra Island. After five days in Manama, Bahrain, she put to sea on 16 April to
observe those same Soviet ships
during their Exercise "Okean 75."
Upon release from that duty, Trippe visited Bandar Abbas again on
the 30th. The warship completed her middle
eastern tour at Mombasa on 28 May and headed -via the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea-to the United
States. After stopping at Rota, Spain, and crossing
the Atlantic, she entered Charleston on 29 June. The next day, Trippe was redesignated a frigate FF-1075. Following a summer of training and a midshipman
cruise, the frigate began overhaul at Charleston
on 6 October.
Trippe completed overhaul on 23 June 1976. The succeeding three months were spent in the
Caribbean where the fleet frigate conducted refresher training. Proceeding to her home port, Charleston, on 8
October, Trippe spent the remainder of 1976 conducting a rigorous
schedule of inspections in preparation for a forthcoming deployment to the Middle East.
Following a technical
restricted availability from 27
December 1976 to 29 January 1977, Trippe departed from Charleston on 31 January. The ship made a
series of visits to West African ports while en route to the Mediterranean for a transit of the Suez Canal.
From 8 March to 14 July, Trippe was
under the operational control of Commander Middle Eastern Force. Concluding her deployment, Trippe returned to
Charleston on 15 September. On the
conclusion of post-deployment standdown,
the ship conducted a host of inspections, both underway and in port.
December 1977 and January
1978 were spent preparing for an April deployment as well as an intervening fleet exercise, "READEX 1-78,"
conducted in the Caribbean during
February. On 4 April, Trippe deployed
to the Mediterranean, returning on 26 October. The customary post-deployment
standdown followed which concluded
the year 1978.
The frigate remained in service until decommissioned on 30 July 1992. The frigate was transferred to Greece under the Security Assistance Program that same day and arrived at Salamis on 25 August 1992. The frigate served in the Greek Navy as Thrace (F 457) until retirement on 9 February 2001.
Trippe earned one battle star for service off the coast of Vietnam.
[Note: The above USS TRIPPE (FF-1075) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS TRIPPE (FF-1075), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]