page_title: USS Francis Hammond
section_title: Service history
hierarchical_section_title: USS Francis Hammond / Service history
caption_attribution_description: English: In 1986, the crew of the U.S. Navy frigate USS Francis Hammond (FF-1067) raised more than $ 11,000 for the U.S. Navy Relief Fund. The goal had been to raise an amount of money equal to Hammond's hull number "1067", times ten. To commemorate the achievement, Hammond asked for and received permission to add a dollar sign and an extra zero to her hull number.
context_page_description: USS Francis Hammond is the ninth Knox-class frigate, named in honor of Hospitalman Francis Colton Hammond, a Medal of Honor recipient.
context_section_description: As part of the Navy's 1975 ship reclassification, Francis Hammond was reclassified as a frigate (FF-1067) on 30 June 1975.
  In December 1986, after the ship's company of Francis Hammond raised over $11,000 for Navy Relief (beating their goal of ten times the ship's hull number), permission was granted to temporarily add a dollar sign, a thousands separator, and an extra zero to the hull number painted on the side of the ship.
  Decommissioned 2 July 1992 in Long Beach, California after twenty-one years and nine months in active commission and struck from the Navy Register on 11 January 1995. Francis Hammond was disposed of by scrapping 31 March 2003.
caption: Francis Hammond's repainted hull number of "$10,670"
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