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USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13)
USINFO | 2013-09-27 17:36
| Ordered: | 27 February 1976 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 4 December 1978 |
| Launched: | 14 July 1979 |
| Acquired: | 1 August 1980 |
| Commissioned: | 11 October 1980 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 April 2002 |
| Struck: | 23 July 2002 |
| Homeport: | last homeport NAVSTA Mayport, FL |
| Identification: | Callsign: NSEM |
| Motto: | The Past is Prologue |
| Fate: | sold to Turkey on 11 April 2002, renamed TCG Gokova (F 496) |
| Name: | TCG Gökova (F 496) |
| Namesake: | Gökova |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2013[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load |
| Length: | 453 feet (138 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 and variable pitch propeller 2 × Auxiliary Propulsion Units, 350 hp (260 kW) retractable electric azimuth thrusters 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-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers |
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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. |
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Electronic warfare & 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 Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine) Note: As of 2004, Mk13 systems removed from all active US vessels of this class. |
| Aircraft carried: | capable of landing SH-2, SH-3 and SH-60 but was never modified to carry LAMPS (ie "poop deck")Lack of funding for NRF ships. |
