Courtney Sprague Vaughan, daughter of Adm. Sprague
Commissioned
21 March 1981
Decommissioned
2 June 1995
Stricken
4 September 1997
Homeport
Naval Station Mayport
Identification
Hull symbol:FFG-16
Code letters:NCAS
Motto
"Nunc Paratus" (Ready Now)
Fate
Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP)
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TCG Gaziantep, 31 May 2010
History
Turkey
Name
TCG Gaziantep
Namesake
City of Gaziantep
Acquired
27 August 1997
Identification
Hull number: F 490
Status
in active service
General characteristics
Class and type
Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Displacement
4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load
Length
445 feet (136 m), overall
Beam
45 feet (14 m)
Draft
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-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers
Sensors and processing systems
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AN/SPS-49 air-search radar
AN/SPS-55 surface-search radar
CAS and STIR fire-control radar
AN/SQS-56 sonar.
G-Class Frigate:
Combat Management System: GENESIS (Gemi Entegre Savaş İdare Sistemi)[1]
Search radar: SMART-S Mk2[2]
Electronic warfare & decoys
AN/SLQ-32
Armament
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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.
G-Class Frigate:
1 × Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS
1 × Oto Melara 76mm DP gun
8 × Harpoon SSM
40 × SM-1 MR SAM
32 × ESSM launched from Mk-41 VLS[3] (4 ESSM missiles per MK-41 cell through the use of MK25 Quadpack canisters, total of 8 cells)[4]
Two triple Mark 32 Anti-submarine warfare torpedo tubes with Mark 46 or Mark 50 anti-submarine warfare torpedoes
Aircraft carried
1 × SH-2F LAMPS I helicopter
USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16) was an Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate of the United States Navy, the tenth ship of that class. She was named for Vice Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague (1896–1955), hero of the Battle off Samar action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, where he received the Navy Cross. Clifton Sprague (FFG-16) was the first ship of that name in the US Navy. She was transferred to the Turkish Naval Forces in 1997 as TCG Gaziantep (F 490) and remains in active service.
^Ship Integrated Combat Management System (GENESIS), Undersecretariat for Defence Industries, Turkey [dead link]
^"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 December 2008. Retrieved 27 December 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^">First Turkish Perry With Mk-41 VLS On". Turkishnavy.net. 19 March 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
^Lockheed Martin to Upgrade Ship Defense System on Turkish Navy Frigates Archived 2009-09-04 at the Wayback Machine, Lockheed Martin, 17 February 2009
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