USS Nicholas (FFG-47) - Definition and Overview

USS_Nicholas(FFG-47);074702.jpg USS Nicholas (FFG-47)
Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	27 September 1982
Launched:	23 April 1983
Commissioned:	10 March 1984
Status:	Active in service as of 2005.
Homeport:	Norfolk, VA
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 variable-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:	"Carrying On A Proud Tradition"

USS Nicholas (FFG-47), a Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Major Samuel Nicholas, the first commanding officer of the United States Marines.

See USS Nicholas for other ships of the same name.