USS Bulkeley DDG-84

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USS Bulkeley (DDG-84) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for Medal of Honor recipient Vice Admiral John D. Bulkeley. This ship is the 34th destroyer of its class. USS Bulkeley was the 15th ship of this class to be built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and construction began on 10 May 1999. She was launched on 21 June 2000 and was christened on 24 June 2000. On 8 December 2001 she was commissioned during a pierside ceremony at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City, New York.

On 13 June 2004, Bulkeley came to the aid of a vessel in distress, Al-Rashid Mum 131. Shortly after turning the vessel over to an Iranian tugboat, it sank. Bulkeley rescued three crew and recovered the body of a fourth. The tug rescued one additional crewman; the other seven were lost at sea. The incident is recounted in the book In the Shadow of Greatness.

In February 2011, Bulkeley was involved in a mission to rescue four American citizens from the yacht Quest which was attacked by Somali pirates.

On 5 March 2011, Bulkeley was involved in rescuing a Japanese oil tanker, MV Guanabara, from Somali pirates while on duty with Combined Task Force 151 off the coast of Oman. Three of the pirates were tried and convicted in Japan, the fourth was turned over to juvenile authorities, as it was determined that he was a minor.

On 16 May 2011 Bulkeley responded to a mayday call from the Panamanian flagged very large crude carrier Artemis Glory by dispatching a Seahawk helicopter (from HSL 48) to its position. Seeing that a piratical skiff carrying four men was firing upon Artemis Glory, the Seahawk investigated the skiff. The pirates opened fire on the helicopter with small arms and were summarily neutralized by crew served weapons from the helicopter in self-defense. The helicopter then withdrew without any casualties to its own crewmembers or that of Artemis Glory.

The ship returned to Norfolk on 15 July 2011. During its deployment, she had participated in operations which had captured 75 Somali pirates and had missile strikes by its carrier strike group against the Libyan government.

She is currently home ported at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.

General characteristics

Class and type: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer

Displacement: 9,200 tons

Length: 509 ft 6 in (155.30 m)

Beam: 66 ft (20 m)

Draft: 31 ft (9.4 m)

Propulsion: 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW)

Speed: >30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)

Range:

4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots

(8,100 km at 37 km/h)

Complement:

33 commissioned officers

38 chief petty officers

210 enlisted personnel

Sensors and

processing systems:

AN/SPY-1D 3D radar (Flight I,II,IIa)

AN/SPY-6 AESA 3D radar (Flight III)

AN/SPS-67(V)2 surface-search radar

AN/SPS-73(V)12 surface-search radar

AN/SPG-62 fire-control radar

AN/SQS-53C sonar array

AN/SQR-19 tactical towed array sonar

AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III shipboard system

Electronic warfare

& decoys:

AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System

AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures

MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launching System

MK 53 Nulka Decoy Launching System

AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF Buoys

Armament:

1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/62 caliber Mk 45 Mod 4 naval gun

2 × 25 mm Mk 38 Autocannons

6 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns

2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS

2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes for Mk 46 torpedoes

96-cell Mk 41 VLS for:

RIM-66 Standard Missile 2

RIM-162 ESSM

BGM-109 Tomahawk

RUM-139 VL-ASROC missiles

Aircraft carried: 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters

USS Oliver Hazard Perry FFG-7

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USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) was the lead ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates. She was named for Oliver Hazard Perry, an American naval hero who was victorious at the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) was the first ship and, as of 2019, the only ship of the U.S. Navy to bear the name (although there were five previous US Navy ships named for Oliver Hazard Perry - four named USS Perry and one named USS Commodore Perry). Oliver Hazard Perry was in service from 1977 to 1997 and was scrapped in 2005.

The class was originally intended as austere "low" category guided missile frigates (compared with the high capability Spruance class) for General Purpose and Anti-Air convoy escort. They were built under a cloud of controversy, with their very light gun armament and lack of redundancy and duplicated systems in event of ship being hit. They were regarded by the Reagan administration and Secretary John Lehman as not part of the 500 ship navy plan, but ultimately proved useful as anti-submarine ships if fitted to carry Seahawks and towed arrays and into the 21st Century as low grade patrol ships making up the numbers in a USN desperately short of escorts.

Oliver Hazard Perry was ordered from Bath Iron Works on 30 October 1973 as part of the FY73 program, and was laid down on 12 June 1975, launched on 25 September 1976, and commissioned on 17 December 1977.[1] She was ordered as PFG-109 but was redesignated as FFG-7 in the 1975 fleet designation realignment on 1 June 1975, before she was laid down.

During her launch ceremony on 25 September 1976, the ship found herself briefly stuck on the slip-way. Film star John Wayne appeared from the crowd of watching dignitaries, climbed the launch ceremony platform, and gave the bow of the frigate – which was by this time starting to move slightly – a shove with one hand, and so John Wayne famously appeared to have 'pushed' a US warship down her slip-way.

Oliver Hazard Perry was one of the few lead ships to be subjected to shock trials. These series of trials conducted early in the life of the ship put this steel hull / aluminum superstructure to the test. The proximity of the tests (seen in associated pictures), caused many of the machine mounts and components to become warped or damaged. This damage created alignment problems for the engineering and combat systems teams in the years to come. The ship regularly required waivers on machine performance due to the warping of many mounting brackets. The shock tests also created cracks in the aluminum superstructure that required frequent repairs. However, this did not affect the overall readiness of the ship, nor did it prevent Oliver Hazard Perry from achieving the record for the most-ever hours put on the GE LM2500 Main Propulsion engine.

After 19.2 years of active service, Oliver Hazard Perry was decommissioned on 20 February 1997, in Mayport, FL under the last Commanding Officer, CDR Robert F. Holman, USNR. Though she was stricken on 3 May 1999, Oliver Hazard Perry was held in the museum donation category at the former Navy shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A group had hoped to bring her to Toledo, Ohio as a museum ship and a memorial for the Battle of Lake Erie. The group was unable submit a viable financial plan together in time so the Perry was sold for scrap in December 2005.

General characteristics

Class and type: Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate

Displacement: 4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load

Length: 445 feet (136 m), overall

Beam: 45 feet (14 m)

Draught: 22 feet (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

2 × Auxiliary Propulsion Units, 350 hp (260 kW) retractable electric azimuth thrusters for maneuvering and docking.

Speed: over 29 knots (54 km/h)

Range: 5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h)

Complement: 15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-2 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

& decoys: AN/SLQ-32

Armament:

As built:

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)

Note: As of 2004, Mk 13 systems removed from all active US vessels of this class. Note: Unlike other Perry-class frigates, USS Oliver Hazard Perry was not equipped with a Vulcan Phalanx CIWS when built.

Aircraft carried: 1; SH-2 Seasprite helicopter (ship was to have capability for two helicopters, but never carried more than one due to flight deck and hangar size limitations)

Aviation facilities: Hangar Bay, Helicopter Pad