Frigate 'U.S.S. Nicholas' - United States Navy

USS NICHOLAS was the thirty-seventh ship in the OLIVER HAZARD PERRY class of frigates and the third ship in the Navy named for Major of the Marines Samuel V. Nicholas. Last homeported at Naval Base Norfolk, Va., the NICHOLAS held a decommissioning ceremony there on March 10, 2014. On March 17, she was officially decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list.
General Characteristics: Awarded: April 28, 1980
Keel laid: September 27, 1982
Launched: April 23, 1983
Commissioned: March 10, 1984
Decommissioned: March 17, 2014
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Propulsion system: two General Electric LM 2500 gas turbines, two 350 Horsepower Electric Drive Auxiliary Propulsion Units
Propellers: one
Blades on each Propeller: five
Length: 453 feet (138 meters)
Beam: 47 feet (14.32 meters)
Draft: 24,6 feet (7.5 meters)
Displacement: 4,100 tons
Speed: 28+ knots
Aircraft: two SH-60 Sea Hawk (LAMPS 3)
Armament: one Mk 75 76mm/62 caliber rapid firing gun, MK 32 ASW torpedo tubes (two triple mounts), one Phalanx CIWS
Crew: 17 Officers and 198 Enlisted


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I commissioned Hull 44, HMAS Darwin in 1986, great ships, well found and surprisingly survivable given they were designed as a expendable escort and "missile sponge"