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Contact Info
Home Town Peru, IN
Last Address Mountain Home, Arkansas
Date of Passing Mar 07, 1969
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Antrim's Namesake ~ USS Antrim FFG-20: Sep 4, 2017
Specifications:
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 Antrim (FFG 20) Building and Operational Data:
28 February 1977: Building contract awarded to the Todd Shipyard Corp.
21 June 1978: Keel laid by the Todd Shipyard Corp., Seattle Division, Seattle, Wash.
27 March 1979: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Richard N. Antrim, the widow of the late Radm. Antrim
26 September 1981: Commissioned, Cmdr. William H. Wright, IV, in command; assigned to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet at Mayport, Fla.
30 January 1987: Assigned to the Naval Reserve Force, Atlantic, at Mayport, Fla.
08 May 1996: Decommissioned at Mayport, Fla. after 14.6 years of service
04 September 1997: Struck from the NVR
27 August 1998: Transferred as Grant Aid to Turkey, renamed TCG Giresun (F-491)
