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3 unusual facts about Knox-class frigate


Knox-class frigate

The steam plant for these ships consists of two Combustion Engineering or Babcock & Wilcox "D" type boilers, each equipped with a high-pressure (supercharger) forced draught air supply system, allowing a plant working pressure of 1,200 psi and 1000 °F superheat.

The anti-submarine capability of the Chi Yang class FFG is provided by its SQS-26 bow-mounted sonar, SQS-35(v) VDS, SQR-18(v)1 passive TAS, MD500 ASW helicopter, Mk-16 8-cell Harpoon/ASROC box launcher, and 4 x Mk46 324 mm torpedoes.

Knox-class frigates were United States Navy warships, originally laid down as ocean escorts (formerly called destroyer escorts), but were all redesignated as frigates on 30 June 1975 in the USN 1975 ship reclassification and their hull designation changed from DE to FF.


Adrian Vanson

Those portraits of the Scottish reformers arrived too late for the book, and the woodcuts of Knox and James VI published in Simon Goulart's 1581 edition of the Icones are thought to follow Vanson's pictures.

Amazon-class frigate

The Amazon class frigates, or Type 21 frigates, comprising eight ships - the Amazon, Antelope, Active, Ambuscade, Arrow, Alacrity, Ardent and Avenger - launched from 1971 to 1975

Brahmaputra-class frigate

The Brahmaputra class is armed with sixteen 3M-24E (Kh-35 Uran or NATO: SS-N-25 Switchblade) AShMs, housed in four quadruple KT-184 launchers, angled at 30°, two on either side of the bridge superstructure.

Bronstein-class frigate

This class was a new design from the keel up, incorporating the FRAM improvements, and was specifically designed to operate the DASH drone helicopter.

Chuck Knox

The move was in response to the continuing conflict between Knox and team owner Carroll Rosenbloom, with Knox taking over a team that had won five of 28 games during the previous two seasons.

After a 4-5 strike-shortened season in 1982, Knox failed to come to terms on a new contract with team owner Ralph Wilson, and left to accept the head coaching position with the Seahawks on January 26, 1983.

Damon and Debbie

The couple visit Morecambe, with Goth Papadum-packer Jenny (Michelle Holmes), who Debbie had met at the open day, and her husband, computer programmer Kirk (Ian Ormsby-Knox).

Dead and Gone

Rob Knox (not to be confused with the murdered actor), one of the producers, expressed his feelings into creating the song.

Donald L. Moffitt

Moffitt previously served as Knox County Treasurer from 1984 to 1993, Knox County Board Chairman from 1982 to 1984, Knox County Board member 1978 to 1982, Knoxville, Illinois Alderman 1977 to 1978, Mayor of the City of Oneida, Illinois from 1972 to 1975, and an Oneida Alderman from 1971 to 1972.

Elizabeth Knox

In 1988 Fergus Barrowman, Nigel Cox, Elizabeth Knox, and Damien Wilkins, with the help of Bill Manhire, Alan Preston and Andrew Mason, co-founded the literary journal Sport.

Enterprise class

Enterprise-class frigate, the final class of 28-gun sailing frigates of the sixth-rate to be produced for the Royal Navy

Floréal-class frigate

The concept of "sentry frigate" emerged from the will of the French government to protect its Exclusive Economic Zone (12 million km²), as defined in the Montego Bay treaties.

Frank Knox Morton Rehn

Frank Knox Morton Rehn (April 12, 1848 - July 7, 1914) was a marine painter and president of Salmagundi Club.

George Helgesen Fitch

The Siwash stories were the basis for the movie Those Were the Days! (1940) starring William Holden as Simmons, which was filmed on location at and around Knox College.

Hanno Teuteberg

He was defence attaché in Germany from 2003 to 2006 during the delivery of four Valour-class frigates as part of the Arms Deal.

Hurtle Lupton

In 2002, Knox was abolished and Lupton contested Ferntree Gully, but was defeated.

James A. Macdonald

He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1891 and assigned to Knox Presbyterian Church in St. Thomas.

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

His work has been exhibited at the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY; The Getty, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in Los Angeles and Minneapolis.

John Simpson Knox

On 18 June 1855, Knox volunteered for the ladder party in the attack on the Redan, an attempt to finish the Siege of Sevastopol, he was struck by a Russian cannonball, removing part of his left arm.

Karel Doorman-class frigate

The ships are named after famous Dutch naval officers, the lead ship being named after Karel Doorman.

Knox Burger

Knox Breckenridge Burger (November 1, 1922 – January 4, 2010) was an editor, writer, and literary agent who lived in New York City.

Knox City

Westfield Knox, formerly known as Knox City Shopping Centre

Knox Mansion

The house was built in 1889 by the gelatine magnate and business woman, Rose Knox, who owned Knox Gelatine and the Knox Gelatine Factory which also resides in Johnstown.

Knox–Porter Resolution

The United States House of Representatives had its own slightly different resolution introduced by Representative Stephen G. Porter, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Knox, Pennsylvania

Ross A. McGinnis a 19 year old Knox native, was killed in action in Iraq on December 4, 2006 and was awarded the Medal of Honor.

Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site

The house and its grounds were the setting and subject of the children's haunted-house novel Buried Treasure (1919), by the best-selling children's author Henry Everett McNeil.

L. D. Knox

In 1978, Knox and then Louisiana Secretary of State James H. "Jim" Brown of Ferriday in Concordia Parish, running as Democrats, unsuccessfully challenged the reelection of freshman Democratic U.S. Representative Jerry Huckaby.

Lady Constance Gaskell

Lady Constance Harriet Stuart Gaskell née Knox DCVO (21 April 1885 – 29 April 1964) was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary from 1937–53 and Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent from 1953–60.

Leander-class frigate

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Luther Biggs

Luther Biggs is an American professional wrestler, who has competed in North American independent promotions including the United States Wrestling Association, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and had a short stint in World Championship Wrestling during the late 1990s, most notably as one half of the tag team Hard Knox with Killer Kyle and manager Coach Buzz Stern.

McLaughlin Mound

In 1972, the McLaughlin Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological significance; it is one of three Knox County mounds on the Register, along with the Raleigh and Stackhouse Mounds near Fredericktown to the northwest.

Moudge-class frigate

The first ship, Jamaran is said to be completed and is stationed in the port of Bandar Abbas.

Oslo-class frigate

On 5 June 2013, she was severely damaged in a test of the Norwegian-designed Naval Strike Missile system off the coast of the island Andøya.

Half of the project expenses were funded by the United States as a part of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program (MDAP) (a program that ran from when it was passed by the Congress in October 1949 until 1967–68).

Plot hole

The 2000 film adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth is rife with plot holes, e.g. the Psychlos enslaving humanity for gold for 1000 years despite the presence of Fort Knox.

Portrait of Seymour H. Knox

It was donated by the families of his two sons, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour H. Knox III and Mrs. and Mrs. Northrup R. Knox, to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in honor of Seymour H. Knox II for his 60 year contribution as a member of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.

Raymond Heard

in political science at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and then spent a year at Harvard on a Frank Knox Fellowship, where his teachers included Henry Kissinger and John Kenneth Galbraith.

Rebel Love

Knox, who first gained fame as the villainous Dr. Peter White on the series St. Elsewhere, later starred for three years as the lead character on the popular series Tour of Duty, a Vietnam War drama.

Robert Knox Sneden

Robert Knox Sneden (1832 in Nova Scotia – 1918) was an American landscape painter, as well as a map-maker for the Union Army during the American Civil War who was a prolific illustrator and memoirist.

Robert Nickle

Robert Nickle's work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Indianapolis Museum, Smithsonian Museum, Carnegie Institute Museum and the National Gallery in Washington.

Sabu and Rob Van Dam

When ECW became the third WWE brand (to RAW and SmackDown), Van Dam and Sabu became a major part of the show and teamed on several occasions, including an "Extreme Rules" match against Test and Mike Knox on September 5, 2006.

Swede Knox

Knox, as a linesman, later filled in as referee during a game in Toronto in the early 1990s, when Don Koharski couldn't finish the game and Kevin Maguire made his NHL officiating debut as a linesman.

Tennessee State Route 71

At this time, South Knox Blvd. ends at Sevierville Pike, although there are current plans to extend the road to meet U.S. Highway 441 (Chapman Highway) or Tennessee SR-168 (Governor John Sevier Highway).

Thomas Knox-Shaw

Knox-Shaw also served as a member of the Board of Finance of the Diocese of Ely, was a trustee of the Cambridge Mission to Delhi and a very active member on the committee of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa.

Thomas W. Knox

Knox was well known for his written attacks on William Tecumseh Sherman and his Union soldiers, which reintroduced into the public debate the issue of Sherman's sanity, and also was controversial for its publishing of important information pertaining to the Vicksburg Campaign.

Valour-class frigate

The 4230-gross-ton (GRT) passenger ship SS Mendi was ferrying the mostly-Pondo 5th Battalion, SA Native Labour Corps (SANLC) from Britain to France when the steamer collided with the 11,000 GRT liner SS Darro during the early hours of February 21, 1917.

Victor A. Knox

Knox was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 11th congressional district to the 83rd United States Congress and to the five succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1965.


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