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Oliver Hazard Perry 1977

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
FFG7	Oliver Hazard Perry	370	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	12.6.1975	25.9.1976	17.12.1977	stricken 5.1999
FFG8	McInerney	373	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	16.1.1978	4.11.1978	15.12.1979	to Pakistan 8.2010 (عالمگیر [Alamgir])
FFG9	Wadsworth	125	Todd, San Pedro	13.7.1977	29.7.1978	28.2.1980	to Poland 6.2002 (Generał Tadeusz Kościuszko)
FFG10	Duncan	76	Todd Pacific, Seattle	29.4.1977	1.3.1978	15.5.1980	stricken 1.1998
FFG11	Clark	374	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	17.7.1978	24.3.1979	9.5.1980	to Poland 3.2000 (Generał Kazimierz Pułaski)
FFG12	George Philip	126	Todd, San Pedro	14.12.1977	16.12.1978	10.10.1980	stricken 5.2004
FFG13	Samuel Eliot Morison	375	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	4.12.1978	14.7.1979	11.10.1980	to Turkey 4.2002 (Gökova)
FFG14	Sides	127	Todd, San Pedro	7.8.1978	19.5.1979	30.5.1981	stricken 5.2004
FFG15	Estocin	376	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	2.4.1979	3.11.1979	10.1.1981	to Turkey 4.2003 (Göksu)
FFG16	Clifton Sprague	377	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	30.7.1979	16.2.1980	21.3.1981	to Turkey 8.1997 (Gaziantep)
FFG19	John A. Moore	77	Todd Pacific, Seattle	19.12.1978	20.10.1979	14.11.1981	to Turkey 9.2000 (Gediz)
FFG20	Antrim	78	Todd Pacific, Seattle	21.6.1978	27.3.1979	26.9.1981	stricken 9.1997, to Turkey (Giresun)
FFG21	Flatley	378	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	13.11.1979	15.5.1980	20.6.1981	to Turkey 8.1998 (Gemlik)
FFG22	Fahrion	81	Todd Pacific, Seattle	1.12.1978	24.8.1979	16.1.1982	to Egypt 3.1998 (شرم الشيخ [Sharm El Sheikh])
FFG23	Lewis B. Puller	129	Todd, San Pedro	23.5.1979	15.3.1980	17.4.1982	to Egypt 9.1998 (توشكى [Toushka])
FFG24	Jack Williams	379	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	25.2.1980	30.8.1980	19.9.1981	to Bahrain 9.1996 (صبحى [Sabha])
FFG25	Copeland	130	Todd, San Pedro	24.10.1979	26.7.1980	7.8.1982	to Egypt 9.1996 (طابا [Mubarak])
FFG26	Gallery	380	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	17.5.1980	20.12.1980	5.12.1981	stricken 6.1996, to Egypt (مبارك [Taba])
FFG27	Mahlon S. Tisdale	131	Todd, San Pedro	19.3.1980	7.2.1981	27.11.1982	stricken 2.1998, to Turkey (Gökçeada)
FFG28	Boone	82	Todd Pacific, Seattle	27.3.1979	16.1.1980	15.5.1982	stricken 2.2012
FFG29	Stephen W. Groves	381	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	16.9.1980	4.4.1981	17.4.1982	stricken 2.2012
FFG30	Reid	132	Todd, San Pedro	8.10.1980	27.6.1981	19.2.1983	stricken 9.1998, to Turkey (Gelibolu)
FFG31	Stark	83	Todd Pacific, Seattle	24.8.1979	30.5.1980	23.10.1982	stricken 5.1999
FFG32	John L. Hall	382	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	5.1.1981	24.7.1981	26.6.1982	stricken 3.2012
FFG33	Jarrett	133	Todd, San Pedro	11.2.1981	17.10.1981	2.7.1983	stricken 5.2011
FFG34	Aubrey Fitch	383	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	10.4.1981	17.10.1981	9.10.1982	stricken 5.1999
FFG36	Underwood	384	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	30.7.1981	6.2.1982	29.1.1983	stricken 3.2013
FFG37	Crommelin	85	Todd Pacific, Seattle	30.5.1980	2.7.1981	18.6.1983	stricken 10.2012
FFG38	Curts	134	Todd, San Pedro	1.7.1981	6.3.1982	8.10.1983	stricken 2.2013
FFG39	Doyle	385	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	23.10.1981	22.5.1982	21.5.1983	stricken 7.2011
FFG40	Halyburton	86	Todd Pacific, Seattle	26.9.1980	13.10.1981	7.1.1984	stricken 9.2014
FFG41	McClusky	135	Todd, San Pedro	21.10.1981	18.9.1982	10.12.1983	stricken 1.2015
FFG42	Klakring	386	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	19.2.1982	18.9.1982	20.8.1983	stricken 3.2013
FFG43	Thach	136	Todd, San Pedro	6.3.1982	18.12.1982	17.3.1984	stricken 11.2013
FFG45	De Wert	387	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	14.6.1982	18.12.1982	19.11.1983	stricken 4.2014
FFG46	Rentz	137	Todd, San Pedro	18.9.1982	16.7.1983	30.6.1984	stricken 5.2014
FFG47	Nicholas	388	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	27.9.1982	23.4.1983	10.3.1984	stricken 3.2014
FFG48	Vandegrift	88	Todd Pacific, Seattle	13.10.1981	15.10.1982	24.11.1984	stricken 3.2015
FFG49	Robert G. Bradley	389	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	28.12.1982	13.8.1983	30.6.1984	stricken 3.2014
FFG50	Taylor	390	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	5.5.1983	5.11.1983	1.12.1984	stricken 5.2015, to Taiwan (銘傳 [Ming Chuan])
FFG51	Gary	138	Todd, San Pedro	18.12.1982	19.11.1983	17.11.1984	stricken 8.2015, to Taiwan (逢甲 [Feng Chiah)
FFG52	Carr	89	Todd Pacific, Seattle	26.3.1982	26.2.1983	27.7.1985	stricken 3.2013
FFG53	Hawes	391	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	26.8.1983	18.2.1984	9.2.1985	stricken 12.2010
FFG54	Ford	139	Todd, San Pedro	16.7.1983	23.6.1984	29.6.1985	stricken 10.2013
FFG55	Elrod	392	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	21.11.1983	12.5.1984	18.5.1985	stricken 1.2015
FFG56	Simpson	393	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	27.2.1984	31.8.1984	21.9.1985	stricken 9.2015
FFG57	Reuben James	140	Todd, San Pedro	19.11.1983	8.2.1985	22.3.1986	stricken 8.2013
FFG58	Samuel B. Roberts	394	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	21.5.1984	8.12.1984	12.4.1986	stricken 5.2015
FFG59	Kauffman	395	General Dynamics Bath Iron Works	8.4.1985	29.3.1986	28.2.1987	stricken 9.2015
FFG60	Rodney M. Davis	141	Todd, San Pedro	8.2.1985	11.1.1986	9.5.1987	stricken 3.2015
FFG61	Ingraham	142	Todd, San Pedro	30.3.1987	25.6.1988	5.8.1989	stricken 1.2015

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	FFG7-35: 3087-3197 (light) FFG36-61: 3101-3204 (light)
Displacement full, t	FFG7-35: 3973-4082 FFG36-61: 4016-4108
Length, m	FFG7-35: 125.9 wl 135.6 oa FFG36-61: 125.9 wl 138.8 oa
Breadth, m	13.7
Draught, m	5.80 mean 6.70 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	2 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines
Power, h. p.	41000
Max speed, kts	29
Fuel, t	gas turbine oil 587
Endurance, nm(kts)	4200(20)
Armament	FFG7-35: 1 x 1 Harpoon SSM / Standard SM-1MR SAM (4 RGM-84 + 36 RIM-66), 1 x 1 - 76/62 Mk 75, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 helicopters (SH-2) FFG36-60: 1 x 1 Harpoon SSM / Standard SM-1MR SAM (4 RGM-84 + 36 RIM-66), 1 x 1 - 76/62 Mk 75, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 helicopters (SH-60) FFG61: 1 x 1 Harpoon SSM / Standard SM-1MR SAM (4 RGM-84 + 36 RIM-66), 1 x 1 - 76/62 Mk 75, 1 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 helicopters (SH-60)
Electronic equipment	FFG7-60: SPS-55, SPS-49(v)4, Mk 92 Mod.4, SPG-60 radars, SQQ-89(v)2 sonar suite (SQS-56 hull-mounted sonar + SQR-19(v)2 towed array), SLQ-32(v)2 ECM suite, 2x Mk 137 decoy RL (Mk 36 SRBOC system), SLQ-25 Nixie towed torpedo decoy FFG61: SPS-55, SPS-49(v)4, Mk 92 Mod.4, SPG-60, Mk 90 radars, SQQ-89(v)2 sonar suite (SQS-56 hull-mounted sonar + SQR-19(v)2 towed array), SLQ-32(v)2 ECM suite, 2x Mk 137 decoy RL (Mk 36 SRBOC system), SLQ-25 Nixie towed torpedo decoy
Complement	217

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Project history

These frigates, direct successors to the Knox class, suffer from much the same criticisms: a single screw and a single weapon (one Mk 13 missile launcher). However, they benefit from a considerable, if unappreciated, degree of redundancy. For example, the fire control system has two channels (two guidance radars, physically well separated). There was a pair of retractable 325hp motors to bring the ship home at 6kts if she loses her main power plant. Although the hull sonar was a short-range (direct path) SQS-56, the primary ASW was SQR-19 towed array, its contacts prosecuted by the two LAMPS helicopters in a large hangar aft.

The Perry class suffered from several ironies. It was first conceived after the truncation of the Spruance class failed to replace the FRAM destroyers; Admiral Zumwalt sought alternative weapon suits for AAW, ASW and anti-ship warfare in the hope of reducing unit costs. In fact, the primary anti-ship weapon, Harpoon, could be fired from the primary AAW launcher, the Mk 13. If the ASROC missile (which cannot be fired from the Mk 13) was foregone, helicopter delivery would provide an AAW-oriented frigate with a considerable ASW stand-off capability. Indeed, even though the Perry does not share the elaborate silencing of the Spruance (for example, it had a diesel ship service generator) or the long-range sonar of previous ocean escorts, it gained a very considerable detection capability in the form of the towed array. Ironically, the ASW frigate was originally rejected on the theory that large numbers of such ships with effective sonars already existed. The advent of the towed array/helicopter combination showed in the decision to double the number of helicopters, which had a considerable effect on the overall design. In the original one-helicopter version, the helipad was placed aft of amidships, in the most favourable position, with the hangar splitting the uptakes. However, two helicopters required a much wider hangar, and both it and the helipad had to be moved aft.

The Mk 92 fire control system was of Dutch origin and was employed, in a somewhat simpler form, in the Pegasus hydrofoils. As installed in the Perry class, it was part of a combat system particularly adapted to combat 'pop-up' weapons such as the Soviet SSN-7 underwater-launched missile. The OTO Melara 76mm gun was chosen as superior to a 127mm/54 in air defence, and it was complemented by a Vulcan Phalanx close-in defence weapon.

Although all were intended to operate LAMPS III helicopters, FFG7-35 were completed without the necessary equipment, including an enlarged flight deck (the ship was lengthened 3.16m to accommodate mooring equipment below the flight deck), RAST gear, and fin stabilisers. From the FY79 ships (FFG36) on, ships were so fitted (RAST was not fitted on completion until FFG50).

RAST (Recovery Assistance, Securing, and Traversing) was tested on board FFG8 in 1981 (rebuilt as SH-60B trials ship, completed in February 1981). FFG26 conducted stabiliser trials in 1982.

Modernizations

1981-1990, McInerney, Boone, Stephen W. Groves, John L. Hall, Jarrett: length oa became 138.8m; - 2 SH-2 helicopters; +2 SH-60 helicopters

1984-1986, all: - Standard SM-1MR SAM; + Standard SM-1MR Block VI SAM

1986-1995, Underwood, Nicholas, Vandegrift, Taylor, Gary, Carr, Hawes, Ford, Elrod, Reuben James, Kauffman, Ingraham: - SPS-49(v)4, Mk 92 Mod. 4 radars; + SPS-49(v)5, Mk 92 Mod. 6 radars, SYS-2(v)2 CCS

1979-1980, McInerney, Clark, Samuel Eliot Morison; early 1980s, Mahlon S. Tisdale, Boone, Stephen W. Groves, Reid, Stark, John L. Hall, Jarett, Aubrey Fitch, Underwood, Crommelin, Curts, Doyle, Halyburton, McClusky, Klakring, Thach, De Wert; 1985-1988, Oliver Hazard Perry, Wadsworth, Duncan, George Philip, Sides, Estocin, Clifton Sprague, John A. Moore, Antrim, Flatley, Fahrion, Lewis B. Puller, Jack Williams, Copeland, Gallery, Rentz, Nicholas, Vandegrift, Robert G. Bradley, Taylor, Gary, Carr, Hawes, Ford, Elrod, Simpson, Reuben James, Samuel B. Roberts, Kauffman, Rodney M. Davis, Ingraham: + 1 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS, Mk 90 radar

1990s, Sides, Aubrey Fitch Crommelin, Taylor, Gary, Carr, Ford: - SQQ-89(V)2 sonar suite (SQS-56 hull-mounted sonar + SQR-19(v)2 towed array); + SQQ-89(v)10 sonar suite (SQS-56 hull-mounted sonar + SQR-19B(v)2 towed array)

1990s, all: + (2 - 4) x 1 - 12.7/90

2004-2005, all survived: - 1 x 1 Harpoon SSM / Standard SM-1MR SAM

2009-2010, all survived: + 1 x 1 - 25/75 Mk 38 Mod. 2, 4x Mk 137 Mod. 10 Nulka decoy RLs

Naval service

No significant events.