USS Samuel Eliot Morison FFG-13

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

Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-13 (USA)
F-496 (Turkey)
Ordered:
February 27, 1976
Commissioned:
October 10, 1980 (USA)
April 10, 2002 (Turkey)

Keel Laid:
December 4, 1978
Decommissioned:
April 10, 2002
Launched:
July 14, 1979
Stricken:


July 23, 2002
Fate:
Transferred to Turkey April 10, 2002 and renamed Gokova F-496
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:
3,101 std. / 3,984 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison USN (1887-1976).


Builder's Data
Page revised Apr. 17, 2007