USS Antrim (FFG-20)

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USS Antrim FFG-20
USS Antrim (FFG-20)
Career (US) United States Navy ensign
Ordered: 28 February 1977
Builder: Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle, Washington
Laid down: 21 June 1978
Launched: 27 March 1979
Acquired: 20 August 1981
Commissioned: 26 September 1981
Decommissioned: 8 May 1996
Struck: 4 September 1997
Status: Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP)
Homeport: Mayport, Florida (former) Mobile AL, and Pascagoula MS
General characteristics
Displacement: 4,100 tons (4,170 t) full load
Length: 453 ft (138.1 m), overall
Beam: 45 ft (13.7 m)
Draught: 22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion: 2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and variable pitch propeller
Speed: 29+ knots (54+ km/h)
Range: 5,000 nm (9,300 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement: 15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers
Sensors and processing systems: AN/SPS-49 air-search radar
AN/SPS-55 surface-search radar
CAS and STIR fire-control radar
AN/SQS-56 sonar.
Electronic warfare and decoys: AN/SLQ-32
Armament: One OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun
one Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for |Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine)
two Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes
one Vulcan Phalanx CIWS; four .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns.
Aircraft carried: 2 × SH-2 LAMPS helicopters

USS Antrim (FFG-20), twelfth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Rear Admiral Richard Nott Antrim (1907–1969). Ordered from Todd Pacific, Seattle, WA on 28 February 1977 as part of the FY77 program, Antrim was laid down on 21 June 1978, launched on 27 March 1979, and commissioned on 26 September 1981.

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Decommissioned on 8 May 1996, she was transferred to Turkey on 27 August 1997 as that nation's TCG Gemlik (F 492). She was stricken on 4 September 1997.

Antrim (FFG-20) was the second ship of that name in the US Navy. The first was named for a lakeshore county in northwestern Michigan. The first Antrim, (AK-159) was laid down 18 April 1944 at Richmond, Calif., launched on 17 July 1944 and, after her delivery to and acceptance by the Navy on 31 October 1944, was commissioned the same day. Operating under the aegis of Service Squadron 9 through the end of the war with Japan, the vessel carried cargo between Manus, in the Admiralty Islands, and Philippine ports. Ultimately, Antrim was decommissioned on 3 April 1946.[1]

  1. ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships USS Antrim AK-159

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