FFG-7 Oliver Hazard Perry

Career (US)
Ordered:	10 March 1973
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	12 June 1975
Launched:	25 September 1976
Commissioned:	17 December 1977
Decommissioned:	20 February 1997
Struck:	3 May 1999
Homeport:	NS Mayport, Florida (former)
Motto:	Don't Give Up the Ship
Nickname:	Gallant Leader, Hockey Puck
Fate:	Scrapped
General characteristics
Displacement:	4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load
Length:	445 ft (136 m) overall
Beam:	45 feet (14 m)
Draught:	22 feet (6.7 m)
Propulsion:	2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft andvariable pitch propeller 2 × Auxiliary Propulsion Units, 350 hp (260 kW) retractable electricazipods for maneuvering and docking.
Speed:	over 29 knots (54 km/h)
Range:	5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h)
Complement:	15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-2 detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers
Sensors and processing systems:	AN/SPS-49 air-search radar AN/SPS-55 surface-search radar CAS and STIR fire-control radar AN/SQS-56 sonar.
Electronic warfare and decoys:	AN/SLQ-32
Armament:	As built: One OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun two Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes one Vulcan Phalanx CIWS; four .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns. one Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standardanti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine) Note: As of 2004, Mk13 systems removed from all active US vessels of this class. Note: Unlike other Perry-class frigates, USS Oliver Hazard Perry was not equipped with a Vulcan Phalanx CIWS when built.
Aircraft carried:	1; SH-2 Seasprite helicopter (ship was to have capability for two helicopters, but never carried more than one due to flight deck and hangar size limitations)