USS Stark FFG-31

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp.
Seattle, Washington
Hull Number:
FFG-31
Ordered:
January 23, 1978
Commissioned:
October 23, 1982
Keel Laid:
August 24, 1979
Decommissioned:
May 7, 1999
Launched:
May 30, 1980
Stricken:
May 7, 1999
Fate:
Sold October 7, 2005 to Metro Machine Corp. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and scrapped.


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:
3,013 std. / 3,897 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Named in honor of Admiral Harold Rainsford Stark USN (1880-1972).
May 17, 1987:
Hit by 2 Exocet missiles fired by an Iraqi aircraft in the Persian Gulf.
37 crewmen were killed and 21 were wounded in the attack.
(Roll of Honor)


Builder's Data
Page published Apr. 17, 2007