USS Fahrion FFG-22

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate

Class:

Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Mubarak (Egypt)

Builder:
Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp.
Seattle, Washington
Hull Number:
FFG-22 (USA)
F-901 (Egypt)
Ordered:
February 28, 1977
Commissioned:
January 16, 1982
Keel Laid:
December 1, 1978
Decommissioned:
March 31, 1998
Launched:
August 24, 1979
Stricken:


March 31, 1998
Fate:
Transferred to Egypt March 31, 1998 and renamed Sharm El-Sheikh F-901
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:
3046 std. / 3,928 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance


Notes:
Named in honor of Admiral Frank George Fahrion USN (1894-1970).
Christened by Mrs. Frank G. Fahrion.


Builder's Data
Page revised Feb. 7, 2007