Running a small company in the DC area. Boating on the Chesapeake Bay. Watching my son complete Sound Studio College and work on his singing/songwriting career (American Idol tryouts twice). Watching my wife and daughter jump horses. Tailgating the Navy Football games. Pub crawling Annapolis. Hitting a golf ball now and than. Life is good.
Ordered from Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, on 28 February 1977 as part of the FY77 program, Jack Williams was laid down on 25 February 1980; launched on 30 August 1980, sponsored by Mrs. Fern Williams Carr, sister of PhM3c Williams; and commissioned on 19 September 1981, Commander Hugh Edward Carroll II in command.
Decommissioned and stricken on 13 September 1996, she was transferred to Bahrain the same day and recommissioned as RBNS Sabha (FFG-90).
Jack Williams (FFG-24) was the first ship of that name in the US Navy.
Specifications:
Class: Oliver Hazard Perry (Short Hull, As Built)
Type: SCB No. 201 / 1973 - 1978
Number in Class: 25 (7, 9 - 16, 19 - 34)
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
Jack Williams (FFG 24) Building and Operational Data:
28 February 1977: Building contract awarded to the Bath Iron Works Corp.
25 February 1980: Keel laid by the Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Me.
30 August 1980: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Fern Williams Carr, sister of PhM3c Williams
19 September 1981: Commissioned at Bath, Me., Cmdr. Hugh E. Carroll in command
13 September 1996: Decommissioned at Pensacola, Fla. after 15 years of service; struck from the NVR; transferred as Grant Aid
to Bahrain; renamed BRNS Sabha (F-90)