USS Stephen W. Groves (FFG-29)
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| Missing image USS_Stephen_W.Groves-cropped.jpg USS Stephen W.Groves (FFG-29) | |
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| Ordered: | 23 January 1978 |
| Laid down: | 16 September 1980 |
| Launched: | 4 April 1981 |
| Commissioned: | 17 April 1982 |
| Status: | Template:Active in service |
| Homeport: | NS Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,100 tons (4,170 t) full load |
| Length: | 453 ft (138.1 m), overall |
| Beam: | 45 ft (13.7 m) |
| Draft: | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and controllable-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 |
| 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: | 2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters |
| Motto: | Dirigo (I Direct) |
| Nickname: | |
USS Stephen W. Groves (FFG-29), twenty-first ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Ensign Stephen W. Groves (1917–1942), a naval aviator who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism at the Battle of Midway.
Ordered from Bath Iron Works on 23 January 1978 as part of the FY78 program, Stephen W. Groves was laid down on 16 September 1980, launched on 4 April 1981, and commissioned on 17 April 1982, Commander Philip A. Bozzelli commanding.
As of 2005, she remains active, assigned to Destroyer Squadron 6 and homeported at NS Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Stephen W. Groves (FFG-29) is the first ship of that name in the US Navy.
External links
- USS Stephen W. Groves official website (http://www.groves.navy.mil/)
- navsource.org: USS Stephen W. Groves (http://www.navsource.org/archives/07/0729.htm)
- navysite.de: USS Stephen W. Groves (http://navysite.de/ffg/FFG29.HTM)
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