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USS Simpson (FFG-56)
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| Name: | USS Simpson (FFG-56) |
| Ordered: | 22 March 1982 |
| Laid down: | 27 February 1984 |
| Launched: | 31 August 1984 |
| Commissioned: | 21 September 1985 |
| Homeport: | NS Mayport, Florida |
| Fate: | Active in service as of 2007 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,100 tons (4,170 t) full load |
| Length: | 453 ft (138 m) |
| Beam: | 45 ft (14 m) |
| Draft: | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines generating 43,000 bhp (32 MW) through a single shaft and controllable pitch propeller |
| Speed: | 29+ knots |
| Range: | 5,000 nm 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 |
| Armament: | As Commissioned: 1 × OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun 1 × Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40-round magazine) 2 × Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes 1 × Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS 4 × .50-caliber (12.7 mm) M2HB machine guns Currently: 1 × OTO Melara Mk 75 mod 2 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun 2 × Mk 32 12.75 in (324 mm) triple-torpedo-tube launchers for Mark 46, Mk 50, and Mk 54 torpedoes 1 × Block 1B Mk 15 Phalanx 20 mm CIWS two Mk 38 25 mm cannons 8 × mounts for crew served weapons |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 × SH-60B LAMPS III helicopter |
| Motto: | Attaquer en Vigueur ("Attack with Vigor") |
USS Simpson (FFG-56) is an Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral Rodger W. Simpson.
Simpson was laid down at Bath Iron Works, Maine, on February 27, 1984, launched on August 31, 1984 and commissioned on 21 September 1985.
Simpson was deployed to the Persian Gulf in January 1988, as an escort to reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers during the Iran-Iraq War. On April 17, 1988, Simpson took part in Operation Praying Mantis, the U.S. response to the mining of the frigate Samuel B. Roberts, which hit an Iranian M-08 mine on April 14, 1988.
On 18 April, Simpson, along with Wainwright and Bagley, destroyed Iranian naval and intelligence facilities on the oil platform Sirri in the Persian Gulf. Later that day, the ships encountered the Iranian Kaman Class (Combatte II type) missile patrol boat, Joshan. Joshan launched a Harpoon missile. Simpson immediately returned missile fire, striking Joshan in her superstructure. Joshan was then sunk by combined gunfire. Simpson was awarded the Joint Meritorious Unit Award and the Combat Action Ribbon for this operation, and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for the deployment.
As of 2006, Simpson is homeported at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, and is part of Destroyer Squadron 14 [1]
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- History of the Frigate
- Maritime of Simpson
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| United States Navy |
Oliver Hazard Perry | McInerney | Wadsworth | Duncan | Clark | George Philip | Samuel Eliot Morison | Sides | Estocin | Clifton Sprague | John A. Moore | Antrim | Flatley | Fahrion | Lewis B. Puller | Jack Williams | Copeland | Gallery | Mahlon S. Tisdale | Boone | Stephen W. Groves | Reid | Stark | John L. Hall | Jarrett | Aubrey Fitch | Underwood | Crommelin | Curts | Doyle | Halyburton | McClusky | Klakring | Thach | De Wert | Rentz | Nicholas | Vandegrift | Robert G. Bradley | Taylor | Gary | Carr | Hawes | Ford | Elrod | Simpson | Reuben James | Samuel B. Roberts | Kauffman | Rodney M. Davis | Ingraham |
| Royal Australian Navy | |
| Spanish Navy |
(Santa Maria class): Santa Maria | Victoria | Numancia | Reina Sofia | Navarra | Canarias |
| Republic of China Navy |
(Cheng Kung class): Cheng Kung | Cheng Ho | Chi Kuang | Yueh Fei | Tzu I | Pan Chao | Chang Chien | Tian Dan |
| Polish Navy | |
| List of frigates of the United States Navy | |