USS Oliver Hazard Perry FFG-7

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-7
Ordered:
October 30, 1973
Commissioned:
December 17, 1977
Keel Laid:
June 12, 1975
Decommissioned:
February 20, 1997
Launched:
September 25, 1976
Stricken:
May 3, 1999
Fate:
Sold Sept. 21, 2005 to Metro Machine Corp., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and scraped


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:
3,091 std. / 3,937 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry USN (1785-1819).


Builder's Data
Page revised Feb. 2, 2007