USS Vandegrift FFG-48

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp.
Seattle, Washington
Hull Number:
FFG-48
Ordered:
April 28, 1980
Commissioned:
November 24, 1984
Keel Laid:
October 13, 1981
Decommissioned:
Launched:
October 15, 1982
Stricken:


Fate:
Active Pacific Fleet
Homeport: San Diego, California


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:
3,178 std. / 4,083 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Named in honor of Medal of Honor winner
General Alexander Archer Vandegrift USMC (1887-1973).



Builder's Data
Page revised Apr. 17, 2007