USS Simpson FFG-56

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-56
Ordered:
March 22, 1982
Commissioned:
September 20, 1985
Keel Laid:
February 27, 1984
Decommissioned:
Launched:
August 31, 1984
Stricken:
Fate:
Active Atlantic Fleet Naval Reserve Force
Homeport: Mayport, Florida


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:
3,120 std. / 4,029 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Rear Admiral Rodger W. Simpson USN.
Christened by Mrs. Grace Fowles-Simpson.


Builder's Data
Page revised Apr. 17, 2007