USS
Reasoner
(FF-1063)
Knox Class Destroyer
Escort
- Displacement:3020 tons (std),
4065 tons (full)
- Dimensions:438'(oa),
415" (wl) x 46' 9" x 24' 9"
- Armament: 1 x 5"/54 Mk 42, 1 ASROC Mk16
(16 missiles),
4-324mm
Mk 32 (4x1 fixed) tubes / Mk 46 torpedoes
- Machinery: 2 CE 1200psi boilers; 1
Westinghouse geared
turbine;
35,000 shp; 1 shaft
- Speed: 27 knots Range:
4,500 nm @ 20
knots
- Crew:
13 Officers, 211 Enlisted
- Laid down by Lockheed Shipbuilding, Seattle WA on
6 January 1969
- Launched 1 August 1970, Commissioned 31 July 1971
- Reclassified Frigate (FF-1063) on 30 June 1975
- Decommissioned 28 August 1993, Stricken 11
January 1995
- Fate: Leased to Turkey 28 August 1993
- renamed Kocatepe (F-252)
- Lease to Turkey renewed 29 August 1997
- Sold to Turkey 22 February 2002, still in Turkish
service
My Duties with USS Reasoner
TAD Apr 1981 -
Jul 1981
USS
Reasoner was in overhaul at Todd
Shipyard Seattle WA and
their leading QM had left
the Navy. I was transfered TAD from USS
Sacramento until a replacement could be ordered in. The
Sacramento
was
in overhaul just across the waterway in West Seattle so my commute via
the
Bremerton ferry was basically the same.
I set up the Navigation
department just like we did it on the USS
Hamner and
the
USS Sacramento. To me it was logical, but it was all new to the
folks
on
Reasoner and they loved it.
I rode my bicycle from base
housing to the ferry and then from the
ferry to the ship. One day, while cycling to work I crashed my
bicycle. I landed on my head and left elbow and then slid 15 ft
on the asphalt. Helmets were not required or even in vogue then,
but I wore a Skid
Lid anyway and believe that it may have saved my life, however my left
elbow was
shattered.
I
went to
the Naval Hospital, Bremerton where they performed emergency surgery
and they put
me back together with 7 pins and a screw. After the surgery I
was assigned to the Limited Duty Division at Naval Station,
Bremerton.
(Now part of NavBase, Kitsap)
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