USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7)

USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) underway during a Great Lakes cruise.
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
Status:	Scrapped
Homeport:	NS Mayport, Florida (former)
General characteristics
Displacement:	4,100 tons (4,170 t) full load
Length:	453 ft (138.1 m), overall
Beam:	45 ft (13.7 m)
Draught:	22 ft (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
Speed:	29+ knots (54+ km/h)
Range:	5,000 nm (9,300 km) at 18 knots (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 one Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine) two Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes one Vulcan Phalanx CIWS; four .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns.
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-2 Seasprite helicopters
Motto:	Don't Give Up the Ship

USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7), lead ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval hero, who was victorious at the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. Ordered from Bath Iron Works on 30 October 1973 as part of the FY73 program, Oliver Hazard Perry was laid down on 12 June 1975, launched on 25 September 1976, and commissioned on 17 December 1977. She was ordered as PFG-109 but redesignated FFG-7 in the 1975 fleet designation realignment on June 1, 1975, before she was laid down. Decommissioned on 20 February 1997, in Mayport, FL under the last Commanding Officer, CDR Robert F. Holman, USNR. Stricken on 3 May 1999, Oliver Hazard Perry and scrapped as of December 2005 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) was the first ship of that name in the U.S. Navy. The Stark, struck by an Iraqi-launched Exocet missile in the the mid-1980s, was a Perry-class frigate. For other ships named for Perry see: USS Perry.

External links

• Photos of USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG 7)
• MaritimeQuest USS Oliver Hazard Perry FFG-7 pages
• NVR FFG-7