USS Kauffman FFG-59

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-59
Ordered:
October 28, 1982
Commissioned:
February 28, 1987
Keel Laid:
April 8, 1985
Decommissioned:
September 15, 2015
Launched:
March 29, 1986
Stricken:
September 21, 2015
   
Fate:
Awaiting disposal 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:
3,154 std. / 4,064 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:

Named in honor of
Vice Admiral James Laurence Kauffman USN (1887-1963) and
Rear Admiral Draper Laurence Kauffman USN (1911-1979).



Page revised Feb. 12, 2007