Perry Class Frigates-FFG
Description: Frigates fulfill a Protection of Shipping (POS) mission as Anti-Submarine Warfare
(ASW) combatants for amphibious expeditionary forces, underway replenishment groups and merchant convoys.
Background: The guided missile frigates (FFG) bring an anti-air warfare (AAW) capability to the
frigate mission, but they have some limitations. Designed as cost efficient surface combatants, they lack the multi-mission capability necessary for modern surface combatants faced with multiple, high-technology threats. They also offer limited capacity for growth. Despite this, the FFG-7 class is a robust platform, capable of withstanding considerable damage. This "toughness" was aptly demonstrated when
USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine and USS Stark was hit by two Exocet cruise
missiles. In both cases the ships survived, were repaired and have returned to the fleet.
Two FFG-7 class ships have been decommissioned as of January 1996, and several more are planned to be decommissioned and transferred to foreign navies.
The Surface Combatant Force Requirement Study does not define any need for a single mission ship such as the frigate and there are no frigates planned in the Navy's five-year shipbuilding plan.
General Characteristics, Oliver Hazard Perry Class
Builders:
Bath Iron Works: FFG 7-8,11,13,15-16,29,32,34,26,39,42,45,47,49,50,53,55-56,58-59.
Todd Shipyards, Seattle: FFG 10,20,22,28,31,37,40,48,52.
Todd Shipyards, San Pedro, Calif.: FFG 9,12,14,19,23,30,33,38,41,43,46,51,54,57,60,61.
Power Plant: Two General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines; 1 shaft, 41,000 shaft horsepower total.
Length: 445 feet (133.5 meters); 453 feet (135.9 meters) with LAMPS III modification.
Beam: 45 feet (13.5 meters)
Displacement: 4,100 tons (full load)
Speed: 29 plus knots (33.4+ miles per hour)
Aircraft:
Two SH-60 (LAMPS III) in FFG 8,28,29,32,33,36-61
One SH-2F (Lamps Mk-I) in FFG 9-27,30, 31,34.
Ships:
USS McInerney (FFG-8), Mayport, Fla.
USS Wadsworth (FFG-9), San Diego, Calif.
USS Clark (FFG-11), Norfolk, Va.
USS George Philip (FFG-12), San Diego, Calif.
USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13), Mayport, Fla.
USS Sides (FFG-14), San Diego, Calif.
USS Estocin (FFG-15), Norfolk, Va.
USS John A. Moore (FFG-19), San Diego, Calif.
USS Fahrion (FFG-22), Mayport, Fla
USS Lewis B. Puller (FFG-23), San Diego, Calif.
USS Boone (FFG-28), Mayport, Fla.
USS Stephen W. Groves (FFG-29), Pascagoula, Miss.
USS Reid (FFG-30), San Diego, Calif.
USS Stark (FFG-31), Mayport, Fla.
USS John L. Hall (FFG-32), Pascagoula, Miss.
USS Jarrett (FFG-33), San Diego, Calif.
USS Underwood (FFG-36), Mayport, Fla.
USS Crommelin (FFG-37), Pearl Harbor, HI
USS Curts (FFG-38), San Diego, Calif.
USS Doyle (FFG-39), Mayport, Fla.
USS Halyburton (FFG-40), Norfolk, Va.
USS McClusky(FFG-41), San Diego, Calif.
USS Klakring (FFG-42), Norfolk, Va.
USS Thach (FFG-43), Yokosuka, Japan
USS Dewert (FFG-45), Mayport, Fla.
USS Rentz (FFG-46), San Diego, Calif.
USS Nicholas (FFG-47), Norfolk, Va.
USS Vandegrift (FFG-48), San Diego, Calif.
USS Robert G. Bradley (FFG-49), Norfolk, Va.
USS Taylor (FFG-50), Mayport, Fla.
USS Gary (FFG-51), San Diego, Calif.
USS Carr (FFG-52), Norfolk, Va.
USS Hawes (FFG-53), Norfolk, Va.
USS Ford (FFG-54), Everett, Wash.
USS Elrod (FFG-55), Norfolk, Va.
USS Simpson (FFG-56), Norfolk, Va.
USS Reuben James (FFG-57), Pearl Harbor, HI
USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58), Norfolk, Va.
USS Kauffman (FFG-59), Norfolk, Va.
USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG-60), Yokosuka, Japan
USS Ingraham (FFG-61), Everett, Wash.
Crew: 13 Officers, 287 Enlisted
Armament: Standard Missile; Harpoon (from Standard Missile Launcher); Six MK-46 torpedoes(from two triple mounts); One 76 mm (3-inch)/62 caliber MK 75 rapid fire gun; OnePhalanx close-in-weapons system
Date Deployed: 17 December 1977 (Oliver Hazard Perry)
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