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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).
USS Underwood underway in the Caribbean Sea in 2006 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | Underwood |
| Namesake | Captain Gordon Waite Underwood |
| Ordered | 27 April 1979 |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down | 30 July 1981 |
| Launched | 6 February 1982 |
| Sponsored by | Elizabeth T. Underwood |
| Christened | 6 February 1982 |
| Acquired | 14 January 1983 |
| Commissioned | 29 January 1983 |
| Decommissioned | 8 March 2013 |
| Homeport | Mayport, Florida |
| Identification |
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| Motto | "Fear the Wood"/"Just Friend and Brave Enemy" |
| Status | Undergoing scrapping |
| Badge |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate |
| Displacement | 4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load |
| Length | 453 feet (138 m), overall |
| Beam | 45 feet (14 m) |
| Draught | 22 feet (6.7 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | over 29 knots (54 km/h) |
| Range | 5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h) |
| Complement | 17 Officers and 198 Enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers |
| Sensors and processing systems |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys | AN/SLQ-32 |
| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters |
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]
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