USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13)
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| Career | Missing image USN-Jack.png USN Jack |
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| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Ordered: | 27 February 1976 |
| Laid down: | 4 December 1978 |
| Launched: | 14 July 1979 |
| Delivered: | 1 August 1980 |
| Commissioned: | 11 October 1980 |
| Fate: | sold to Turkey on 11 April 2002, renamed TCG Gokova (F 496) |
| Struck: | 23 July 2002 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,101 tons light, 3,984 tons full, 883 tons dead |
| Length: | 445 feet (133.5 meters) overall, 408 feet waterline |
| Beam: | 45 feet (13.5 meters) |
| Draft: | 24.6 feet (7.5 meters), 17 feet limit |
| Propulsion | 2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines producing 41,000shp |
| Speed: | 29 knots |
| Complement: | 17 officers, 198 enlisted, 19 aircrew |
| Armament: | four AGM-84 Harpoon missiles,
36 SM-1MR Standard missiles, two triple-mount 324mm Mk32 tubes for Mk46 torpedoes, one three-inch/62-caliber Mk75 rapid firing gun, one Phalanx CIWS, four .50-caliber machineguns |
| Aircraft: | one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) |
USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13), the seventh Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, was named for Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), one of America's most distinguished naval historians, who wrote more than 40 books on naval history.
On 11 April 2002, Samuel Eliot Morison was decommissioned and transferred to Turkey, where she was renamed TCG Gökova (F 496) and joined the other Gaziantep-class (Perry-class) frigates that the Turkish Navy has acquired from the United States.
Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13) was the first ship of that name in the US Navy.
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