USSJack Williams
USSJack Williams(FFG-24) on 1 March 1983
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Name | Jack Williams |
Namesake | U.S. NavyPharmacist Mate,Jack Williams |
Ordered | 28 February 1977 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works,Bath, Maine |
Laid down | 25 February 1980 |
Launched | 30 August 1980 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Fern Williams Carr, sister of PhM3c Williams |
Commissioned | 19 September 1981 |
Decommissioned | 13 September 1996 |
Stricken | 13 September 1996 |
Homeport | Mayport,Florida |
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Nickname(s) | The Arky |
Fate | Transferred toBahrainasRBNSSabha,1996 |
General characteristics[1] | |
Class and type | Oliver Hazard Perry-classfrigate |
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) |
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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, plusSH-60LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | AN/SLQ-32 |
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Aircraft carried | 1 ×SH-2F LAMPS I |
USSJack Williams(FFG-24),sixteenth ship of theOliver Hazard Perry-classof guided-missilefrigates,was named for Pharmacist's Mate Third ClassJack Williams,who was posthumously awarded theMedal of Honorfor his heroism in theBattle of Iwo Jima.
Construction and career
[edit]Ordered fromBath Iron Works,Bath, Maine,on 28 February 1977 as part of the FY77 program,Jack Williamswas laid down on 25 February 1980;launchedon 30 August 1980,sponsoredby Mrs. Fern Williams Carr, sister of PhM3c Williams; andcommissionedon 19 September 1981.
in 1983, the ship accidentally launched a live MK-46 torpedo while berthed at Naval Station Mayport in Florida. The torpedo skidded across the top of a concrete pier but did not detonate.
Decommissioned and stricken on 13 September 1996, she was transferred toBahrainthe same day and recommissioned asRBNSSabha(90).
Jack Williams(FFG-24) was the first ship of that name in the US Navy.
References
[edit]- ^"USS Jack Williams (FFG 24)".Navsource.org.Retrieved11 April2015.
This article includes information collected from theNaval Vessel Register,which, as a U.S. government publication, is in thepublic domain.The entry can be foundhere.
External links
[edit]Media related toUSS Jack Williams (FFG-24)at Wikimedia Commons