USS Klakring (FFG-42) - Definition and Overview

Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	19 February 1982
Launched:	18 September 1982
Commissioned:	20 August 1983
Status:	Active in service as of 2005.
Homeport:	NS Norfolk, Virginia
General Characteristics
Displacement:	4,100 tons (4,170 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
Motto:	Freedom Through Vigilance
Nickname:

USS Klakring (FFG-42), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, is a ship of the United States Navy named for Rear Admiral Thomas B. Klakring (born 1904), who was awarded three Navy Crosses as commander of the submarine USS Guardfish (SS-217) during World War II.

Klakring was laid down on 19 February 1982 by the Bath Iron Works Corp. Bath, Maine; launched on 18 September 1982; and commissioned on 20 August 1983. As of 2005, Klakring is homeported at NS Norfolk, Virginia, and is part of Destroyer Squadron 14.

External links

• USS Klakring official website (http://www.klakring.navy.mil/)
• navsource.org: USS Klakring (http://www.navsource.org/archives/07/0742.htm)
• navysite.de: USS Klakring (http://www.navysite.de/ffg/FFG42.HTM)