USS Hawes (FFG-53)
USS Hawes (FFG-53) is a later model
Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate.
The contract to build
Hawes was awarded to
Bath Iron Works May 22,
1981, and her keel was laid
August 26,
1983. She was launched
February 18,
1984, delivered
February 1,
1985, and commissioned
February 9,
1984.
General Characteristics
- Length: 453 feet overall, 408 feet waterline
- Beam: 47 feet
- Draft: 26 feet maximum, 17 feet limit
- Displacement: 3182 tons light, 4092 tons full, 910 tons dead
- Armament
- One Mk12 deck mounted single arm launcher, 36 RIM-66D SM-1 Standard missiles (fired locally or by the Aegis combat system)
- Four AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles
- One Mk15 20mmm Phalanx CIWS
- Two Mk32 Mk-46 Torpedo on triple mount deck trainable tube launchers
- One Mk-75 OTO Melara 76mm rapid fire gun
- Aircraft: One SH-60 LAMPS III
- Propulsion
- Accommodations: 23 officers, 204 enlisted