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Guided missile frigate USS Reid (FFG-30)

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Classification

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

Basic information

Namesake:
Sailing Master Samuel Chester Reid
Renaming:
  • TCG Gelibolu (F493) (05.01.1999-present)
Operator:
Turkish Naval ForcesTurkish Naval Forces United States NavyUnited States Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Decommissioned (out):
Status:
Active
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:
COGAG
Propulsion:
  • 2 * GE LM 2500 gas turbines, 41,000 hp (31 MW)
  • 1 * propeller and 2 * bow thrusters
Speed:
30 knots
Range:
5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 18 kn (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 Reid (FFG-30), twenty-second ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class of guided missile frigates, was named for Sailing Master Samuel Chester Reid (1783–1861). She was the frigate short-hull variant (Flight I). Ordered from Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California on 23 January 1978 as part of the FY78 program, Reid was laid down on 8 October 1980, launched on 27 June 1981, sponsored by Mrs. William C. Abhau, her daughter Miss Elliot Abhau assisting, Mrs. Abhau is the great-great granddaughter of Sailing Master Chester Reid, and commissioned on 19 February 1983.

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