USS Jack Williams FFG-24

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Sabha (Bahrain)

Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-24 (USA)
F90 (Bahrain)
Ordered:
February 28, 1977
Commissioned:
September 19, 1981
Keel Laid:
February 25, 1980
Decommissioned:
September 13, 1996
Launched:
August 30, 1980
Stricken:


September 13, 1996
Fate:
Transferred to Bahrain on September 13, 1996 and renamed Sabha F-90
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:
2,900 std. / 3,783 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Medal of Honor winner
Pharmacists Mate 3rd Class Jack Williams USNR (1924-1945).


Builder's Data
Page revised Feb. 10, 2007