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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Ordered: | 27 February 1976 |
| Laid down: | 4 December 1978 |
| Launched: | 14 July 1979 |
| Delivered: | 1 August 1980 |
| Commissioned: | 11 October 1980 |
| Fate: | sold to Turkey on 11 April 2002, renamed TCG Gokova (F 496) |
| Struck: | 23 July 2002 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3101 tons light, 3984 tons full, 883 tons dead |
| Length: | 445 feet (133.5 meters) overall, 408 feet waterline |
| Beam: | 45 feet (13.5 meters) |
| Draft: | 24.6 feet (7.5 meters), 17 feet limit |
| Propulsion | two General Electric LM 2500 gas turbines producing 41,000shp |
| Speed: | 29 knots |
| Complement: | 17 officers, 198 enlisted, 19 aircrew |
| Armament: | four AGM-84 Harpoon missiles, 36 SM-1MR Standard missiles, two triple-mount 324mm Mk32 tubes for Mk46 torpedoes, one three-inch/62-caliber Mk75 rapid firing gun, one Phalanx CIWS, four .50-caliber machineguns |
| Aircraft: | one SH-2 Seasprite (LAMPS I) |
On 11 April 2002, Morison was decommissioned and transferred to Turkey, where she was renamed TCG Gokova (F 496) and joined the other Gaziantep-class (Perry-class) frigates that the Turkish Navy has acquired from the United States.
Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13) was the first ship of that name in the US Navy.