USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13)

	; USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13)
Ordered:	27 February 1976
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	4 December 1978
Launched:	14 July 1979
Acquired:	1 August 1980
Commissioned:	11 October 1980
Decommissioned:	10 April 2002
Struck:	23 July 2002
Homeport:	San Diego, California (former)
Motto:	The past is prologued
Fate:	sold to Turkey on 11 April 2002, renamed TCG Gokova (F 496)
General characteristics
Displacement:	4,100 tons (4,170 t) full load
Length:	453 ft (138.1 m), overall
Beam:	45 ft (13.7 m)
Draught:	22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion:	2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and variable pitch propeller; 2 x Auxiliary Propulsion Units, 350 hp (.25 MW) retractable electric azipods for maneuvering and docking.
Speed:	29+ knots (54+ km/h)
Range:	5,000 nm (9,300 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement:	15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers
Sensors and; processing systems:	AN/SPS-49 air-search radar; AN/SPS-55 surface-search radar; CAS and STIR fire-control radar; AN/SQS-56 sonar.
Electronic warfare; and decoys:	AN/SLQ-32
Armament:	As built:; One OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun; two Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes; one Vulcan Phalanx CIWS; four .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns.; one Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine) Note: As of 2004, Mk13 systems removed from all active US vessels of this class.
Aircraft carried:	capable of landing SH-2, SH-3 and SH-60 but was never modified to carry LAMPS (ie "poop deck")Lack of funding for NRF ships.

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USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13), the seventh Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, was named for Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), one of America's most distinguished naval historians, who wrote more than 40 books on naval history.

On 11 April 2002, Samuel Eliot Morison was decommissioned and transferred to Turkey, where she was renamed TCG Gökova (F 496) and joined the other G class frigates (Perry class) that the Turkish Navy has acquired from the United States.

Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13) was the first ship of that name in the US Navy.

USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13)

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This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.