USS Wadsworth (FFG-9)

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General Characteristics
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 Wadsworth (FFG-9), third ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Commodore Alexander S. Wadsworth (1790–1851).

Ordered from Todd Shipyards, San Pedro, CA on 27 February 1976 as part of the FY75 program, Wadsworth was laid down on 13 July 1977, launched on 29 July 1978, and commissioned on 2 April 1980. Decommissioned on 28 June 2002, Wadsworth was handed over to Poland the same day and commissioned as that nation's ORP Gen. T. Kościuszko, after Tadeusz Kosciuszko an American Revolutionary War hero in the United States and an independence hero in Poland. She was formally decommissioned from the US Navy on July 23, 2002.

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