USS Stephen W. Groves FFG-29

Type:
Guided Missile Frigate
Class:
Oliver Hazard Perry (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
FFG-29
Ordered:
January 23, 1978
Commissioned:
April 17, 1982
Keel Laid:
September 16, 1980
Decommissioned:
N/A
Launched:
April 4, 1981
Stricken:
N/A
Fate:
Active Atlantic Fleet Naval Reserve Force
Homeport: Mayport, Florida


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
445'
Engines:
2 GE LM 2500 Gas Turbines
Beam:
47'
Boilers:
N/A
Draft:
16' (25' sonar)
Shafts:
1
Displacement:
3,190 std. / 4,094 full
SHP:
41,000
Speed:
29 knots
Crew:
Aprox. 220
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Ensign Stephen W. Groves USN (1917-1942).

Christened by Mariam Groves-Landry.



Builder's Data
Page revised Apr. 17, 2007