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USS Wadsworth (FFG-9)
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 USS Wadsworth (FFG-9) underway. |
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| Career (US) |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 27 February 1976 |
| Builder: | Todd Pacific Shipyards |
| Laid down: | 13 July 1977 |
| Launched: | 29 July 1978 |
| Commissioned: | 2 April 1980 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 June 2002 |
| Struck: | 23 July 2002 |
| Status: | Transferred to Poland and renamed ORP General Tadeusz Kosciuszko (273) |
| Homeport: | San Diego, California (former) |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,100 tons (4,170 t) full load |
| Length: | 445ft. |
| 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-60 LAMPS III helicopters |
USS Wadsworth (FFG-9), third ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Commodore Alexander S. Wadsworth (1790–1851).
Ordered from Todd Pacific Shipyards, San Pedro, CA on 27 February 1976 as part of the FY75 program, Wadsworth was laid down on 13 July 1977, launched on 29 July 1978, and commissioned on 2 April 1980. Decommissioned on 28 June 2002, Wadsworth was handed over to Poland the same day and commissioned as that nation's ORP Gen. T. Kościuszko, after Tadeusz Kosciuszko an American Revolutionary War hero in the United States and an independence hero in Poland. She was formally decommissioned from the US Navy on July 23, 2002.
Wadsworth portrayed the fictional USS Reuben James in the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October.
- USS Wadsworth for other ships of this name.