USS Sides FFG-14

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp
San Pedro, California
Hull Number:
FFG-14
Ordered:
February 27, 1976
Commissioned:
May 30, 1981
Keel Laid:
August 7, 1978
Decommissioned:
February 28, 2003
Launched:
May 19, 1979
Stricken:
May 24, 2004
Fate:
At the inactive ships yard Bremerton, Washington


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:
3,197 std. / 4,082 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Admiral John H. Sides USN


Builder's Data
Page revised Apr. 17, 2007