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USS Sides entering San Francisco Bay in 2002
History
USS SidesUnited States
NameSides
NamesakeAdmiral John H. Sides
Ordered27 February 1976
BuilderTodd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California
Laid down7 August 1978
Launched19 May 1979
Sponsored byMrs. Joanne Sides Watson, daughter of Adm. Sides
Commissioned30 May 1981
Decommissioned28 February 2003
Stricken24 May 2004
HomeportNS San Diego, California (former)
Identification
  • Hull symbol:FFG-14
  • Code letters:NJHS
Motto"Savvy"
FateSold for scrapping 15 December 2014
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General characteristics [1]
Class and typeOliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Displacement4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load
Length445 feet (136 m), overall
Beam45 feet (14 m)
Draught22 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.
Speedover 29 knots (54 km/h)
Range5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h)
Complement15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS 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.
Aircraft carried1 × SH-2F LAMPS I[2]

USS Sides (FFG-14) was an Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate that served in the US Navy.

  1. ^ "USS Sides (FFG 14)". Navesource.org. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  2. ^ "USS Sides (FFG 14)". Navysite.de. Retrieved 10 April 2015.

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