USS Oliver Hazard Perry
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| Status: | Template:Ship fate box active in service |
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| Displacement: | 4,100 tons (4,170 t) full load |
| Length: | 453 ft (138.1 m), overall |
| Beam: | 45 ft (13.7 m) |
| Draft: | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines generating 43,000 bhp (32 MW) through a single shaft and variable-pitch propeller |
| 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 |
| Armament: | As Completed: One OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun; one Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine); two Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes; one Vulcan Phalanx CIWS; four .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns.
Currently: One OTO Melara Mk 75 mod 2 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun; two Mk 32 12.75 in (324 mm) triple-torpedo-tube launchers for Mark 46 and Mk 50 torpedoes; one block 1B Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS; six .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns; two Mk 19 40mm grenade launchers. |
| Aircraft: | 2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters |
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USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7), lead ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval hero, who was victorious at the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. Ordered from Bath Iron Works on 30 October 1973 as part of the FY73 program, Oliver Hazard Perry was laid down on 12 June 1975, launched on 25 September 1976, and commissioned on 17 December 1977. She was ordered as PFG-109 but redesignated FFG-7 in the 1975 fleet designation realignment on June 1, 1975, before she was laid down. Decommissioned on 20 February 1997 and stricken on 3 May 1999, Oliver Hazard Perry was scrapped as of December 2005 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) was the first ship of that name in the U.S. Navy. For other ships named for Perry see: USS Perry.
