Guided missile frigate USS Jarrett (FFG-33)
Basic information
Namesake:
Vice Admiral Harry B. Jarrett
Operator:
Country of build:
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Decommissioned (out):
Status:
Fate:
Scrapping at Sulphur, 18 June 2015
Ship measurements
Displacement:
4,200 t
Length:
138 m
Beam:
14 m
Draft:
6.7 m
Machine
Propulsion system:
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 manoeuvring 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-60 LAMPS III helicopter
USS Jarrett (FFG-33), was the twenty-fifth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigates, was named for Vice Admiral Harry B. Jarrett (1898–1974).
Ordered from Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California on 23 January 1978 as part of the FY78 program, Jarrett was laid down on 11 February 1981, launched on 17 October 1981, commissioned on 2 July 1983, and decommissioned on 21 April 2011. She was the frigate long-hull variant (Flight II). Jarrett was the first US Navy warship to be commanded by a woman, Commander Kathleen A. McGrath, from 18 December 1998 until 4 September 2000.
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