USS Pharris, FF1094

Authorized: August 25, 1966
Builder:  Avondale
Laid Down:  February 11, 1972
Launched:  December 16, 1972
Commissioned:  January 26, 1974 (at Norfolk)
Decommissioned:  April 15, 1992
Fate:  Sold to Mexico June 15, 1999
The Pharris is of the Knox Class
The Knox Class as Constructed
Displacement:  4,260 tons fully loaded.
Length:  438' 
Beam:  47'
Draught:  16' (keel); 26' (Sonar dome)
Machinery:  Two combustion Engineering boilers; One Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000 shp; 1 shaft.
Performance:  27 kts.
Bunkerage:  200,000 gallons
Range:  4,000 miles at 22 knots on 1 boiler.
Guns:  1 FMC 5" 54 cal Mk-42
Torpedoes:  MK 32

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