USS DeWert FFG-45

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate

Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-45
Ordered:
April 28, 1980
Commissioned:
November 19, 1983
Keel Laid:
June 14, 1982
Decommissioned:
Launched:
December 18, 1982
Stricken:
Fate:
Active Atlantic Fleet
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:
3,145 std. / 4,047 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Medal of Honor winner
Hospitalman Richard David DeWert USN (1931-1951).


Builder's Data
Page published Feb. 2, 2007