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- Code Number:
- MYNV17P04_01
- Title:
- USS Ford (FFG-54), Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
- Namesake: Gunner's Mate Patrick O. Ford
Builder: Todd Pacific Shipyards, San Pedro, California
Laid down: 11/07/1983
Launched: 23/06/1984
Commissioned: 29/06/1985
Homeport: Naval Station Everett, Washington
Motto: Tenacious
Status: in active service as of 2013
Class & type: Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Displacement: 4,100 long tons (4,166 tons) full load
Length: 138 meters (453 feet) o/a
Beam: 14 meters (45 feet)
Draft: 6.7 meters (22 feet)
Propulsion: 2 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and variable-pitch propeller
Speed: 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)+
Range: 5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement: 15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers
Armament: 1 OTO Melara Mk.75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun
2 Mk.32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes
1 Vulcan Phalanx CIWS
4 .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns 1 MK 38 25mm Automatic Gun
aircraft carried: 2 SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters - Keywords:
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