USS Mahlon S. Tisdale FFG-27

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Gaziantep (Turkey)

Builder:
Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp.
San Pedro, California
Hull Number:
FFG-27 (USA)
F-494 (Turkey)
Ordered:
January 23, 1978
Commissioned:
November 27, 1982 (USA)
April 5, 1999 (Turkey)
Keel Laid:
March 19, 1980
Decommissioned:
September 27, 1996
Launched:
February 7, 1981
Stricken:


February 20, 1998
Fate:
Transferred to Turkey April 5, 1999 and renamed Gokceada F-494
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:
3,090 std. / 3,972 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Vice Admiral Mahlon Street Tisdale USN.


Builder's Data
Page revised Feb. 12, 2007