USS Nicholas FFG-47

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-47
Ordered:
April 28, 1980
Commissioned:
March 10, 1984
Keel Laid:
September 27, 1982
Decommissioned:
Launched:
April 23, 1983
Stricken:
Fate:
Active Atlantic Fleet
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia.


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:
3,183 std. / 4,092 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in Honor of Major Samuel Nicholas USMC (1744-1790).
Christened by Elizabeth M. Tryon.


Builder's Data
Page revised Feb. 12, 2007