USS Ingraham (FFG-61) - Definition and Overview

USS_Ingraham_(FFG-61);10.jpg USS Ingraham (FFG-61)
Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	30 March 1987
Launched:	25 June 1988
Commissioned:	5 August 1989
Status:	Active in service as of 2005.
Homeport:	NS Everett, Washington
General Characteristics
Displacement:	4,100 tons (4,165 t) full load
Length:	453 ft (138.1 m), overall
Beam:	45 ft (13.7 m)
Draft:	22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion:	2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and controllable-pitch propeller
Speed:	29+ knots (54+ km/h)
Range:	5,000 nm (9,300 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement:	15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers
Armament:	One OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun; one Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine); two Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes; one Vulcan Phalanx CIWS; four .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns.
Aircraft:	2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters
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USS Ingraham (FFG-61), the last American Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, is the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Captain Duncan Ingraham (1802–1891).

Ingraham was laid down on 30 March 1987 by the Todd Pacific Shipyards Co., Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, Ca.; launched on 25 June 1988; and commissioned on 5 August 1989. As of 2005, Ingraham is commanded by CDR Ricks Polk, USN, is homeported at NS Everett, Washington, and is assigned to Destroyer Squadron 9.

Ingraham is named in honor of of Captain Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham (1802-1891). Captain Ingraham, while commanding the sloop St. Louis in the Mediterranean Squadron in July 1852, interfered with the Austrian consul's detention of Martin Kosztca, a Hungarian who had declared in New York his intention of becoming an American citizen. For his conduct in this matter he was voted thanks and a medal by Congress.

See USS Ingraham for other ships of the same name.

External links

• USS Ingraham official website (http://www.ingraham.navy.mil/)
• navsource.org: USS Ingraham (http://www.navsource.org/archives/07/0761.htm)
• navysite.de: USS Ingraham (http://www.navysite.de/ffg/FFG61.HTM)