 USS Samuel Eliot Morison during sea trials in 1980 | |
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| Name: | USS Samuel Eliot Morison |
| Namesake: | Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison |
| Ordered: | 27 February 1976 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down: | 4 December 1978 |
| Launched: | 14 July 1979 |
| Commissioned: | 11 October 1980 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 April 2002 |
| Struck: | 23 July 2002 |
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| Motto: | "The Past is Prologue" |
| Fate: | Sold to Turkey on 11 April 2002 |
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 Turkish TCG Gökova | |
| Career (Turkey) |  |
| Name: | Gökova |
| Namesake: | Municipality of Gökova |
| Acquired: | 11 April 2002 |
| Identification: | F 496 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2026[update] |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class & type: | Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load |
| Length: | 445 feet (136 m), overall |
| Beam: | 45 feet (14 m) |
| Draft: | 22 feet (6.7 m) |
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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 |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: | AN/SLQ-32 |
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| Aircraft carried: | 1 × SH-2F LAMPS I[4] But may have never been modified to carry LAMPS (ie "poop deck")Lack of funding for NRF ships. |
| Aviation facilities: | Hangar Bay, Helicopter Deck |
USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13), the seventh Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, was named for Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), one of America's most distinguished naval historians, who wrote more than 40 books on naval history.
Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13) was the first ship of that name in the US Navy.
TCG Gökova (F 496)[]
On 11 April 2002, Samuel Eliot Morison was decommissioned and transferred to Turkey, where she was renamed as TCG Gökova (F 496) and joined the other G class frigates (Perry class), which the Turkish Navy has acquired from the United States.
In 2013, she contributed to Operation Ocean Shield with other NATO Forces Ships in the Gulf of Aden.
As of 2019, she is still in active service.
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Awards[]
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
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References[]
- ↑ "USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG 13)". Navsource.org. http://www.navsource.org/archives/07/0713.htm.
- ↑ ">First Turkish Perry With Mk-41 VLS On". 19 March 2011. https://turkishnavy.net/2011/03/19/first-turkish-perry-with-mk-41-vls-on/.
- ↑ Lockheed Martin to Upgrade Ship Defense System on Turkish Navy Frigates Archived 2009-09-04 at the Wayback Machine., Lockheed Martin, 17 February 2009
- ↑ "USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG 13)". Navysite.de. http://www.navysite.de/ffg/FFG13.HTM.
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.
External links[]
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