USS Clifton Sprague FFG-16

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Gaziantep (Turkey)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-16 (USA)
F-490 (Turkey)
Ordered:
February 27, 1976
Commissioned:
March 21, 1981
Keel Laid:
July 30, 1979
Decommissioned:
June 2, 1995
Launched:
February 16, 1980
Stricken:
September 4, 1997
Fate:
Leased to Turkey Aug. 27, 1997 and renamed Gaziantep F-490.
Still active.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
445'
Engines:
2 General Electric LM 2500 Gas Turbines
Beam:
47'
Boilers:
N/A
Draft:
16' (25' sonar)
Shafts:
1
Displacement:
3,043 std. / 3,923 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Vice Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague USN (1896-1955).


Builder's Data
Page revised Feb. 2, 2007