Guided missile frigate USS Mahlon S. Tisdale (FFG-27)
Basic information
Namesake:
Vice Admiral Mahlon S. Tisdale
Renaming:
- TCG Gokceada (F494) (05.04.1999-present)
Operator:
Country of build:
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Decommissioned (out):
Status:
Fate:
Transferred to Turkish Naval Forces, 1999
Ship measurements
Displacement:
4,166 t
Length:
135.6 m
Beam:
13.7 m
Draft:
6.7 m
Machine
Propulsion system:
Propulsion:
- 2 * GE LM 2500 gas turbines, 41,000 hp (31 MW)
- 1 * propeller and 2 * bow thrusters
Speed:
30 knots
Range:
5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h)
Personnel
Complement:
222
Combat assets
Electronics:
- AN/SPS-49 Air Search Radar
- AN/SPS-55 Surface Search Radar
- Mk.92 Missile Fire Control System
- AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare System
- AN/SQS-56 Sonar
- Mk.36 SRBOC Decoy System
- AN/SQR-19 Towed Array Sonar System
- AN/SQQ-89 ASW Integration System
- AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Decoy System
Armament:
- 1 * Mk.13 Mod.4 single-arm missile launcher for
- 36 * RIM-66 Standard / SM-1MR SAM missiles and 4 * RGM-84 Harpoon SSM
- 1 * Mk.75 (3"/62 — 76mm/62caliber) rapid firing gun
- 1 * Mk.15 Phalanx close-in weapon system (CIWS)
- 2 * Mk.32 (12.75"/324mm) triple torpedo tubes for 6 * Mk.46 torpedos
Aircraft:
- 2 * AB-212 ASW or S-70B Seahawk helicopters
USS Mahlon S. Tisdale (FFG-27), nineteenth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided missile frigates, was named for Vice Admiral Mahlon Street Tisdale (1890–1972). Ordered from Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California, on 23 January 1978 as part of the FY78 program, Mahlon S. Tisdale was laid down on 19 March 1980, launched on 7 February 1981, and commissioned on 27 November 1982. She was the frigate short-hull variant (Flight I).
Mahlon S. Tisdale (FFG-27) was the first ship of that name in the U.S. Navy.
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