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Guided missile frigate USS Fahrion (FFG-22)

Guided missile frigate USS Fahrion (FFG-22) 0Guided missile frigate USS Fahrion (FFG-22) 1

Classification

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

Basic information

Namesake:
Admiral Frank George Fahrion
Renaming:
  • ENS Sharm El-Sheik (F901) (15.03.1998-present)
Operator:
Egyptian NavyEgyptian Navy United States NavyUnited States Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Vigor IndustrialVigor Industrial
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Decommissioned (out):
Status:
Active
Fate:
Transferred to Egyptian Navy, 1998

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 Fahrion (FFG-22), fourteenth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class of guided missile frigates, was named for Admiral Frank George Fahrion (1894–1970).

Ordered from Todd Pacific, Seattle, WA on 28 February 1977 as part of the FY77 program, Fahrion was laid down on 1 December 1978, launched on 24 August 1979, and commissioned on 16 January 1982. She was the frigate short-hull variant (Flight I). Transferred to Egypt on 15 March 1998 as ENS Sharm El-Sheik (F901), she was formally decommissioned and stricken on 31 March 1998. As of March 2021, Sharm El-Sheik remained in active service with the Egyptian Navy.

USS Fahrion in American service in 1995. Fahrion (FFG-22) was the first ship of that name in the US Navy.

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