USS Reid FFG-30

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Gaziantep (Turkey)

Builder:
Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp.
San Pedro, California
Hull Number:
FFG-30 (USA)
F-493 (Turkey)
Ordered:
January 23, 1978
Commissioned:
February 19, 1983 (USA)
January 5, 1999 (Turkey)

Keel Laid:
October 8, 1980
Decommissioned:
September 25, 1998 (USA)
Launched:
June 27, 1981
Stricken:


September 25, 1998 (USA)
Fate:
Sold to Turkey January 5, 1999 and renamed Gelibolu F-493
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:
3,048 std. / 3,928 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Master Samuel C. Reid USN (1783-1861).
Christened by Mrs. William C. Abhau.


Builder's Data
Page revised Apr. 21, 2007