Function: Guided Missile Frigate configured for Anti-Submarine and Protection of Shipping missions.





Description: Oliver Hazard Perry class guided missile frigates were designed to function primarily as a cost effective ASW platform with limited Anti Air capabilities. Intended to provide open ocean escort of supply convoys and amphibious warfare ships in a low to medium threat environment, the O.H. Perry lacks the ability to perform multiple threat missions or to survive independently in high threat situations.





General Characteristics, Oliver Hazard Perry Class



Cost:

About $1 billion each





Builders:

Bath Iron Works





Power Plant:

Two General Electric LM 2500 gas turbines, 1 shaft with 1 reversable variable pitch screw, 41,000 shaft horsepower





Date Deployed:

December 17, 1977 (USS Oliver Hazard Perry)





Crew:

13 officers, 287 enlisted





Sensors:



Radars:

One AN/SPS-49 air search radar



One AN/SPS-55 surface search radar



One Mk 92 Fire Control System



Sonars:

One AN/SQS-53 hull mounted sonar



One AN/SQR-19 towed array sonar



One AN/SQQ-89 ASW combat system



Countermeasures:

One Mk 36 Mod 2 Super Rapid-Blooming Off Board Chaff System (SRBOC)



One AN/SLQ-32(v)3 electronic warfare suite



One AN/SLQ-25 towed torpedo decoy (Nixie)



Length, Overall:

453 feet (139.4 meters)





Beam:

45 feet (13.5 meters)





Displacement:

4,100 tons (4,165.80 metric tons) full load





Speed:

30+ knots (34.52+mph, 55.55+ kph)





Armament:



Guns:

One Mk 75 3"/62 caliber Lightweight Gun Mount



One Mk 15 Mod 2 Close-In Weapon System (1 mount)



Torpedoes:

Two Mk 32 Mod 14 triple torpedo tubes firing either the Mk 46 Mod 5 or Mk 50 ASW torpedo





Missiles:

Standard SM-1MR Surface to Air missile



Harpoon Anti Ship Missile



One Mk 13 Guided Missile Launcher (for Harpoon and Standard missiles)





Aircraft:

Two SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters









Ships:

USS McInerney (FFG 8), Mayport, FA

USS Wadsworth (FFG 9), San Diego, CA

USS George Philip (FFG 12), San Diego, CA

USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG 13), Mayport, FA

USS Sides (FFG 14), San Diego, CA

USS Estocin (FFG 15), Norfolk, VA

USS John A. Moore (FFG 19), San Diego, CA

USS Boone (FFG 28), Mayport, FA

USS Stephen W. Groves (FFG 29), Pascagoula, MI

USS John L. Hall (FFG 32), Pascagoula, MI

USS Jarrett (FFG 33), San Diego, CA

USS Underwood (FFG 36), Mayport, FA

USS Crommelin (FFG 37), Pearl Harbor, HI

USS Curts (FFG 38), San Diego, CA

USS Doyle (FFG 39), Mayport, FA

USS Halyburton (FFG 40), Norfolk, VA

USS McClusky (FFG 41), San Diego, CA

USS Klakring (FFG 42), Norfolk, VA

USS Thach (FFG 43), San Diego, CA

USS De Wert (FFG 45), Mayport, FA

USS Rentz (FFG 46), San Diego, CA

USS Nicholas (FFG 47), Norfolk, VA

USS Vandegrift (FFG 48), Yokosuka, Japan

USS Robert G. Bradley (FFG 49), Mayport, FA

USS Taylor (FFG 50), Mayport, FA

USS Gary (FFG 51), Yokosuka, Japan

USS Carr (FFG 52), Norfolk, VA

USS Hawes (FFG 53), Norfolk, VA

USS Ford (FFG 54), Everett, WA

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), Everett, WA

USS Ingraham (FFG 61), Everett, WA