The USS Elrod (FFG-55) of the US NAVY is an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate. It was commissioned May 1985 and has seen since various deployments.
Name: USS Elrod (FFG-55)
Builder: Bath Iron Works
Commissioned: 21 September 1985
Current homeport: NS Norfolk, Virginia
Class and type: Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Displacement: 4,100 tons (4,170 t) full load
Length: 453 ft (138 m)
Beam: 45 ft (14 m) Draft: 22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion: 2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 bhp (31 MW) through a single shaft and controllable pitch propeller
Speed: 29+ knots
Range: 5,000 nm 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:
1 × OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun
2 × Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes
1 × Mk 15 Vulcan Phalanx CIWS
4 × .50-caliber M2HB machine guns
Aircraft carried: 2 × SH-60B LAMPS III helicopters
The USS Elrod visited the Dutch Naval Days summer 2008 in Den Helder.
Photographed July 2008, by Marcel Bouman (C) Copyright IPMS Nederland
