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Service Details
Current Service Status
USN Retired
Current/Last Rank
Chief Petty Officer
Current/Last Primary NEC
EN-4291-Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Mechanic
Current/Last Rating/NEC Group
Engineman
Primary Unit
1985-1988, EN-4291, USS Simpson (FFG-56)
Previously Held NEC
EN-4333-Fairbanks Morse (38D 8-1/8) Diesel Eng Tech
EN-9502-Instructor
EN-0000-Engineman
EN-4333-Fairbanks Morse(38D 8-1/8) & Colt Pielstick(PC2.5V)Diesel Eng Tech
EN-4382-FFG-7 Class Auxiliaries Mechanical System Technician
Service Years
1965 - 1988
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Great Lakes
Order of the Arctic Circle (Bluenose)
Order of the Shellback
Plank Owner
From Month/Year January / 1988
To Month/Year March / 1988
Unit USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) Unit Page
Rank Chief Petty Officer
NEC EN-4382-FFG-7 Class Auxiliaries Mechanical System Technician
Base, Station or City Philadelphia State/Country United States
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Hull number FFG-7
Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG 7) Building and Operational Data :
30 October 1973: Building contract awarded to the Bath Iron Works Corp.
12 June 1975: Keel laid by the the Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Me.
25 September 1976: Launched and christened
17 December 1977: Commissioned at Bath, Me.
31 May 1984: Assigned to Naval Reserve Force at Philadelphia, Pa.
20 February 1997: Decommissioned at Mayport, Fla. after 19.2 years of service
3 May 1999: Stricken from the NVR
9 September 2005: Contract for scrapping ($2,503,814) awarded to Metro Machine Corp. of Philadelphia, Pa.
21 April 2006: Scrapping completed
Class: Oliver Hazard Perry (Short Hull, As Built)
Type: SCB No. 201 / 1973 - 1978
Number in Class: 25 (7, 9 - 34) / 26
Displacement: 3109 tons (std), 3993 tons (full)
Length: 408' (wl), 445' (oa)
Beam: 45.4' (extreme)
Draft: 24' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 2 GE LM 2500 gas turbine engines; 41,000 shp; 1 shaft, cp propeller, 325 hp retractable propeller pods
Speed: 29 kts
Range: 4,500 nm @ 20 knots, 5400 nm @ 16 knots
Complement: 13 / 206 (includes 19 man air detachment)
Missiles: 1-Mk 13 Mod 4 launcher, 4-SSM McDonnell-Douglas Harpoon missiles, 36-GDC-Pomona Standard SM-1MR missiles
Guns: 1 OTO Melara Mk 75 3"/62 cal., 1 Vulcan Phalanx CIS, 4-.50 cal. MGs
ASW Weapons: 6-324mm Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes / Mk 46 torpedoes
Radars: AN/SPS-55 (surface), AN/SPS-49(V)214 (air)
Sonars: AN/SQS-56, AN/SQR-19 TACTAS (Towed Array)
Elec. Warfare: SLQ-25 Nixie System, SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Countermeasures System
Fire Control Systems: 1 Mk13 Weapon-Direction System, 1 Mk92 weapons FCS, 1 modified SPG-60 STIR radar (Separate Target Illumination Radar)
Helicopter: 1 - SH-2 LAMPS Helicopter
Type
Surface Vessel
Parent Unit
Surface Vessels
Strength
Frigate
Created/Owned By
MM Summers, Nicole (minnie mouse), MMFN 105
Last Updated: Nov 8, 2022