High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The USS Talbot (FFG-4) was laid down on 4 May 1964 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corp.; launched on 6 January 1966; sponsored by Miss Frances K. Talbot; and commissioned on 22 April 1967, Comdr. Edwin E. Woods, Jr., in command. The ship was named for US Navy Captain Silas Talbot.