USS Aubrey Fitch FFG-34

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-34
Ordered:
January 23, 1978
Commissioned:
October 9, 1982
Keel Laid:
April 10, 1981
Decommissioned:
December 12, 1997
Launched:
October 17, 1981
Stricken:
May 3, 1999
Fate:
Sold March 11, 2004 to Metro Machine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and scrapped.
Scrapping completed on May 19, 2005.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
445'
Engines:
2 General Electric LM 2500 Gas Turbines
Beam:
47'
Boilers:
N/A
Draft:
16' (25' sonar)
Shafts:
1
Displacement:
3,109 std. / 3,993 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Admiral Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch USN (1883-1978).
Christened by Mrs. Fracesca Ferguson.


Builder's Data
Page revised Feb. 2, 2007