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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 (138 m) overall, 408 feet (124 m) waterline
Beam: 47 feet (14.3 m)
Draft: 26 feet (7.9 m) maximum, 17 feet (5.2 m) 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 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
- Two Mk32 Mk-46 Torpedo on triple mount deck trainable tube launchers
- One Mk-75 OTO Melara 76 mm rapid fire gun
Aircraft: One SH-60 LAMPS III
Propulsion
- Engines: 2 × General Electric LM2500-30The General Electric LM2500 industrial and marine turboshaft gas turbine is a derivative of GE Aircraft Engines' CF6-50 aircraft engine. The LM2500 is offered in addition to the LM6000. It delivers 33,600 shaft horsepower with a thermal efficiency of 37 p gas turbineThis machine has a single-stage radial compressor and turbine, a recuperator, and foil bearings. A gas turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a flow of combustion gas. It has an upstream compressor coupled to a downstream turbine, and a combs
- Shaft: one, 41,000 shaft horsepower (31 MW) total
- Performance: 29 knots (54 km/h)
Accommodations: 23 officers, 204 enlisted

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