USS Hawes FFG-53

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-53
Ordered:
May 22, 1981
Commissioned:
February 9, 1985
Keel Laid:
August 26, 1983
Decommissioned:
December 10, 2010
Launched:
February 18, 1984
Stricken:


Fate:
Laid up at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
453'
Engines:
2 General Electric LM 2500 Gas Turbines
Beam:
47'
Boilers:
N/A
Draft:
17' (26' sonar)
Shafts:
1
Displacement:
3,182 std. / 4,092 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Rear Admiral Richard Ellington Hawes USN (1894-1986).


Builder's Data
Page published Feb. 7, 2007