USS Frank Knox (DD 742)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Gearing
Pennant	DD 742
Built by	Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.)
Ordered	7 Aug 1942
Laid down	8 May 1944
Launched	17 Sep 1944
Commissioned	11 Dec 1944
End service	Jan 1971
History	Reclassified as DDR-742 on 18 March 1949. Reverted back to DD-742 on 1 January 1969. Decommissioned in January 1971. Stricken 30 January 1971. Transferred to Greece 23 January 1971 being renamed Themistocles. Themistocles was stricken in 1992 and sunk 11 September 2001 during an exercise, by a torpedo from the Greek submarine Nereus.

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Joel Clarence Ford, Jr., USN	11 Dec 1944	10 Jul 1946

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