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Guided missile frigate USS George Philip (FFG-12)

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Classification

Ship class:
Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Type:
Frigate

Basic information

Namesake:
Commander George Philip Jr.
Operator:
United States NavyUnited States Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Decommissioned (out):
Status:
Decommissioned

Ship measurements

Displacement:
4,200 t
Length:
136 m
Beam:
14 m
Draft:
6.7 m

Machine

Propulsion system:
COGAG
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:
29 knots
Range:
5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h)

Personnel

Complement:
205

Combat assets

Electronics:
  • AN/SPS-49 air-search radar
  • AN/SPS-55 surface-search radar
  • CAS and STIR fire-control radar
  • AN/SQS-56 sonar
  • AN/SLQ-32
Armament:
  • 1 * OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun
  • 2 * Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes
  • 1 * Vulcan Phalanx CIWS
  • 4 * .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns.
  • 1 * Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine)
Aircraft:
  • 1 * SH-2F LAMPS I helicopter

USS George Philip (FFG-12), sixth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided missile frigates, was named for Commander George Philip Jr. (1912–1945), posthumous winner of the Navy Cross for actions as commanding officer of the destroyer USS Twiggs. She was the frigate short-hull variant (Flight I).

George Philip was expected to join the Portuguese Navy in 2006, together with her sister ship Sides, but the Portuguese Navy dropped the offer and chose two Dutch Karel Doorman-class frigates instead. George Philip was expected to join the Turkish Navy in the summer of 2008, together with her sister ship Sides, but the Turkish Navy dropped the offer. As of May 2012, both frigates were awaiting their fates at anchor in the Sinclair Inlet off the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility.

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