USS Klakring FFG-42

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-42
Ordered:
April 27, 1979
Commissioned:
August 20, 1983
Keel Laid:
February 19, 1982
Decommissioned:
Launched:
September 18, 1982
Stricken:


Fate:
Active Atlantic Fleet Naval Reserve Force
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia.


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:
3,129 std. / 4,034 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Rear Admiral Thomas B. Klakring USN (1904-1975).
Christened by Beverly Bohen.


Builder's Data
Page revised Feb. 2, 2007