USS Clark (FFG-11)
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| Status: | Template:Ship fate box active in service |
| Homeport: | NS Mayport, Florida |
| 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 Clark (FFG-11), fifth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Admiral Joseph James "Jocko" Clark (1893-1971). Ordered from Bath Iron Works on 27 February 1976 as part of the FY76 program, Clark was laid down on 17 July 1978, launched on 24 March 1979, and commissioned on 9 May 1980. Decommissioned and stricken on 15 March 2000, she was handed over to Poland that same day to become the Polish Navy's Gen. K. Pułaski, after Kazimierz Pułaski, a Polish soldier who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
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