USS McInerney FFG-8

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-8
Ordered:
February 27, 1976
Commissioned:
November 19, 1979
Keel Laid:
January 16, 1978
Decommissioned:
Launched:
November 4, 1978
Stricken:


Fate:
Active Atlantic Fleet
Homeport: Mayport, Florida.


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:
3,144 std. / 4,052 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Vice Admiral Francis Xavier McInerney USN (1899-1956).


Builder's Data
Page revised Feb. 12, 2007