USS Copeland (FFG-25) | |
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![]() USS Copeland (FFG-25) | |
Career (United States) | |
Name: | USS Copeland (FFG-25) |
Namesake: | Robert W. Copeland |
Ordered: | 28 February 1977 |
Builder: | Todd Pacific Shipyards, San Pedro |
Laid down: | 24 October 1979 |
Launched: | 26 July 1980 |
Commissioned: | 7 August 1982 |
Decommissioned: | 18 September 1996 |
Struck: | 18 September 1996 |
Homeport: | San Diego, California |
Fate: | transferred to Egyptian Navy, 18 September 1996[1] |
Career (Egypt) | ![]() |
Name: | Alexandria (F911) |
Acquired: | 18 September 1996[1] |
Commissioned: | 13 July 1997[1] |
Status: | in active service, as of 2007[update][1] |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate |
Displacement: | 4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load |
Length: | 453 feet (138 m), overall |
Beam: | 45 feet (14 m) |
Draft: | 22 feet (6.7 m) |
Propulsion: |
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Speed: | over 29 knots (54 km/h) |
Range: | 5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h) |
Complement: | 15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers |
Sensors and processing systems: |
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Electronic warfare & decoys: | AN/SLQ-32 |
Armament: |
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Aircraft carried: | 2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters |
USS Copeland (FFG-25) was the seventeenth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class of guided-missile frigates in the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Robert W. Copeland (1910–1973).
Ordered from Todd Pacific Shipyards, San Pedro, California on 28 February 1977 as part of the FY77 program, Copeland was laid down on 24 October 1979, launched on 26 July 1980, and commissioned on 7 August 1982. Decommissioned and stricken on 18 September 1996, she was transferred to Egypt the same day as Mubarak (F911). After the 2011 revolution the ship was renamed to remove the former ruler's name. The ship is named Alexandria (F911) now. As of 2015[update], she remained in active service with the Egyptian Navy.[1]
Copeland (FFG-25) was the first ship of that name in the US Navy.
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Wertheim, Eric, ed (2007). "Egypt". The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems (15th ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-1-59114-955-2. OCLC 140283156.
References[]
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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