USS Taylor FFG-50

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-50
Ordered:
May 22, 1981
Commissioned:
December 1, 1984
Keel Laid:
May 5, 1983
Decommissioned:
May 8, 2015
Launched:
November 5, 1983
Stricken:
Fate:
Awaiting transfer to Taiwan as of 2015.


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:
3,142 std. / 4,047 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Commander Jesse Junior Taylor USN (1925-1965).
May 19, 1994:
Assisted in rescuing the survivors of the Egyptian ferry Al-Quamar Al-Saudi Al-Misri.


Builder's Data
Page revised Apr. 17, 2007