USS Underwood FFG-36

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-36
Ordered:
April 27, 1979
Commissioned:
January 29, 1983
Keel Laid:
July 30, 1981
Decommissioned:
Launched:
February 6, 1982
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:
3,174 std. / 4,082 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Captain Gordon Waite Underwood USN (1910-1978).
Christened by Elizabeth T. Underwood.


Builder's Data
Page revised Apr. 17, 2007