USS Curts FFG-38

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp.
San Pedro, California
Hull Number:
FFG-38
Ordered:
April 27, 1979
Commissioned:
October 8, 1983
Keel Laid:
July 1, 1981
Decommissioned:
Launched:
March 6, 1982
Stricken:


Fate:
Active, Pacific Fleet Naval Reserve Force
Homeport: San Diego, California


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
453'
Engines:
2 General Electric LM 2500 Gas Turbines
Beam:
47'
Boilers:
N/A
Draft:
17' (26' sonar)
Shafts:
1
Displacement:
3,186 std. / 4,090 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Admiral Maurice E. Curts USN (1898-1976).


Builder's Data
Page revised Feb. 2, 2007