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History
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United States
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Name
| Underwood
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Namesake
| Captain
Gordon Waite Underwood
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Ordered
| 27 April 1979
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Builder
| Bath Iron Works
,
Bath, Maine
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Laid down
| 30 July 1981
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Launched
| 6 February 1982
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Sponsored by
| Elizabeth T. Underwood
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Christened
| 6 February 1982
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Acquired
| 14 January 1983
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Commissioned
| 29 January 1983
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Decommissioned
| 8 March 2013
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Homeport
| Mayport
,
Florida
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Identification
| |
Motto
| "Fear the Wood"
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Status
| Undergoing scrapping
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Badge
| |
General characteristics
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Class and type
| Oliver Hazard Perry
-class
frigate
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Displacement
| 4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load
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Length
| 453 feet (138 m),
overall
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Beam
| 45 feet (14 m)
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Draught
| 22 feet (6.7 m)
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Propulsion
| |
Speed
| over 29 knots (54 km/h)
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Range
| 5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h)
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Complement
| 17 Officers and 198 Enlisted, plus
SH-60 LAMPS
detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers
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Sensors and
processing systems
| |
Electronic warfare
& decoys
| AN/SLQ-32
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Armament
| |
Aircraft carried
| 2 ×
SH-60 LAMPS III
helicopters
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USS
Underwood
(FFG-36)
was the twenty-seventh ship of the
Oliver Hazard Perry
-class
of guided-missile
frigates
, named for Captain
Gordon Waite Underwood
(1910–1978).
Ordered from
Bath Iron Works
,
Bath, Maine
, on 27 April 1979 as part of the FY79 program,
Underwood
was laid down on 30 July 1981, launched on 6 February 1982, and commissioned on 29 January 1983. She was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 14 and homeported at Mayport, FL.
On 13 January 2010,
Underwood
was ordered to assist in the humanitarian relief efforts following the
2010 Haiti earthquake
.
[1]
Underwood
was extensively used to counteract drug trafficking in Latin America with the assistance of the
Coast Guard
.
[2]
Underwood
was decommissioned at
Naval Station Mayport
on 8 March 2013.
[3]
It was then moved to the
Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility
in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, where it was laid up.
On 27 February 2023,
Underwood
arrived at
Brownsville, Texas
, where it will be scrapped.
[4]
References
[
edit
]
This article includes information collected from the
Naval Vessel Register
, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the
public domain
. The entry can be found
here
.
External links
[
edit
]
Photo gallery
of USS
Underwood
(FFG-36) at NavSource Naval History