USS Connole
USS Connole was a, named for Commander David R. Connole, Captain of when the submarine was lost in battle in March 1945.
Design and description
The Knox-class design was derived from the modified to extend range and without a long-range missile system. The ships had an overall length of, a beam of and a draft of. They displaced at full load. Their crew consisted of 13 officers and 211 enlisted men.The ships were equipped with one Westinghouse [Combustion Turbine Systems Division|Westinghouse] geared steam turbine that drove the single propeller shaft. The turbine was designed to produce, using steam provided by 2 C-E boilers, to reach the designed speed of. The Knox class had a range of at a speed of.
The Knox-class ships were armed with a 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun forward and a single 3-inch/50-caliber gun aft. They mounted an eight-round ASROC launcher between the 5-inch gun and the bridge. Close-range anti-submarine defense was provided by two twin Mark 32 [Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes|Mk 32 torpedo tubes]. The ships were equipped with a torpedo-carrying DASH drone helicopter; its telescoping hangar and landing pad were positioned amidships aft of the mack. Beginning in the 1970s, the DASH was replaced by a SH-2 Seasprite LAMPS I helicopter and the hangar and landing deck were accordingly enlarged. Most ships also had the 3-inch gun replaced by an eight-cell RIM-7 Sea Sparrow#Basic [point defense missile system (BPDMS)|BPDMS] missile launcher in the early 1970s.