USS Connole (FF-1056)

Career (US)
The USS Connole (FF-1056) underway
Class and type:	Knox-class frigate
Ordered:	July 22, 1964
Builder:	Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana
Laid down:	March 23, 1967
Launched:	July 20, 1968
Acquired:	August 22, 1969
Commissioned:	August 30, 1969
Decommissioned:	August 30, 1992
Struck:	January 11, 1995
Status:	Transferred to Greece as Ipiros (F-456)
General characteristics
Displacement:	3,278 tons (4,245 full load)
Length:	438 ft (133.5 m)
Beam:	46 ft 9 in (14.25 m)
Draught:	24 ft 9 in (7.6 m)
Propulsion:	2 × CE 1200psi boilers 1 Westinghouse geared turbine 1 shaft, 35,000 shp (26 MW)
Speed:	over 27 knots (50 km/h)
Range:	4,500 nautical miles (8,330 km) @ 20 knots (37 km/h)
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) one Mk-25 BPDMS launcher for Sea Sparrow missiles, later replaced by Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried:	one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) helicopter
Motto:	Exempla Suorum Durant The Example of our Ancestors Endures

The USS Connole (FF-1056) was a Knox class frigate. Named for Commander David R. Connole, Captain of USS Trigger (SS-237) when the submarine was lost in battle in March 1945. Connole was constructed for the United States Navy by Avondale Shipyard, Westwego, Louisiana, laid down March 23, 1967, launched July 20, 1968 and delivered August 22, 1969. She was commissioned August 30, 1969, decommissioned August 30, 1992 and struck January 11, 1995. Connole was transferred to Greece as Ipiros (F-456), which was decommissioned by Greece in 2003.