Name: | USS Gallery (FFG-26) |
Namesake: | Philip D. Gallery |
Ordered: | 28 February 1977 |
Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down: | 17 May 1980 |
Launched: | 20 December 1980 |
Acquired: | 10 November 1981 |
Commissioned: | 5 December 1981 |
Decommissioned: | 14 June 1996 |
Struck: | 14 June 1996 |
Homeport: | Mayport, Florida (former) |
Fate: | transferred to Egyptian Navy, 25 September 1996[1] |
Career (Egypt) | |
Name: | Taba (F916) |
Acquired: | 25 September 1996[1] |
Commissioned: | 13 July 1997[1] |
Status: | in active service, as of 2007[update][1] |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate |
Displacement: | 4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load |
Length: | 453 feet (138 m), overall |
Beam: | 45 feet (14 m) |
Draft: | 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 |
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 & 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: | 2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters |