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Guided missile frigate USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG-60)

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Classification

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

Basic information

Namesake:
USMC Sergeant Rodney M. Davis
Operator:
United States NavyUnited States Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Decommissioned (out):
Sunk:
Status:
Sunk
Fate:
Disposed of as target during RIMPAC 2022 SINKEX, 12 July 2022

Ship measurements

Displacement:
4,200 t
Length:
138 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 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:
  • 2 * SH-60 LAMPS III helicopter

USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG-60) was an Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate of the United States Navy named for Marine Sergeant Rodney Maxwell Davis (1942–1967), who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Vietnam War.

Rodney M. Davis was laid down on 8 February 1985 by the Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California; Launched on 11 January 1986; Christened by Mrs. Judy P. Davis, Widow of Sgt. Davis, and commissioned on 9 May 1987, Cmdr. Craig R. Heckert in command.

The ship was homeported at Yokosuka, Japan for several years while assigned to Destroyer Squadron 15. She was the frigate long-hull variant (Flight II). Rodney M. Davis was decommissioned at NS Everett on 23 January 2015. She was sunk 12 July 2022 during RIMPAC 2022.

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