USS Flatley FFG-21

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Gaziantep (Turkey)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-21 (USA)
F-492 (Turkey)
Ordered:
February 28, 1977
Commissioned:
June 20, 1981
Keel Laid:
November 13, 1979
Decommissioned:
May 11, 1996
Launched:
May 15, 1980
Stricken:
October 10, 2001
Fate:
Transferred to Turkey Aug. 27, 1997 and renamed TCG Gemlik F-492
Still active.


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:
2,887std. / 3,768 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Rear Admiral James H. Flatley USN.
Christened by Dorothy M. Flatley.


Builder's Data
Page revised Feb. 7, 2007