USS Taylor (FFG-50) - Definition and Overview

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Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	5 May 1983
Launched:	5 November 1983
Commissioned:	1 December 1984
Status:	Active in service as of 2005.
Homeport:	NS Mayport, Florida
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
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USS Taylor (FFG-50), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, is a ship of the United States Navy named for Commander Jesse J. Taylor (1925–1965), a naval aviator who was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for his heroism in the Vietnam War.

Taylor's keel was laid down by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine, on 5 May 1983. She was launched 5 November 1983, and commissioned 1 December 1984.

As of 2005, Taylor is homeported at NS Mayport, Florida, and is part of Destroyer Squadron 24. See USS Taylor for other ships of the same name.

External links

• USS Taylor official website (http://www.taylor.navy.mil/)
• navsource.org: USS Taylor (http://www.navsource.org/archives/07/0750.htm)
• navysite.de: USS Taylor (http://www.navysite.de/ffg/FFG50.HTM)