USS Hawes (FFG-53)

USS Hawes (FFG-53) is a later model Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate. The contract to build Hawes was awarded to Bath Iron Works May 22, 1981, and her keel was laid August 26, 1983. She was launched February 18, 1984, delivered February 1, 1985, and commissioned February 9, 1984.

General Characteristics

Length: 453 feet overall, 408 feet waterline

Beam: 47 feet

Draft: 26 feet maximum, 17 feet limit

Displacement: 3182 tons light, 4092 tons full, 910 tons dead

Armament

• One Mk12 deck mounted single arm launcher, 36 RIM-66D SM-1 Standard missiles (fired locally or by the Aegis combat system)
• Four AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles
• One Mk15 20mmm Phalanx CIWS
• Two Mk32 Mk-46 Torpedo on triple mount deck trainable tube launchers
• One Mk-75 OTO Melara 76mm rapid fire gun

Aircraft: One SH-60 LAMPS III

Propulsion

• Engines: two General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine
• Shaft: one, 41,000 shaft horsepower total
• Performance: 29+ knots

Accommodations: 23 officers, 204 enlisted