FFG 7 Overview
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2015
- September 29, 2015 marked the end of the US Navy's service of the Oliver Hazard Perry Class Frigate (FFG-7 Class) with the retirement of the USS Simpson (FFG-56)
I bring you a very rare builders video, showing the highlights of the Perry Class, when the US Navy started purchasing them in the 1970's.
If you have a Father, Brother, Uncle or friend that served on one of the solid ships during thier time in the US Navy, Australian Navy or any other navy that operates the Perry Class....direct them to this video.
Goodbye Perry Class Frigate
(1977 - 2015)
That tiny fucking WHEEL!?!
Well, Navy, now I've seen everything. LOL
HMAS Canberra FFG-02 Plankowner 1981- 84, in the Operations Room (CIC) during the Harpoon firing in this video, HMAS Canberra Sea posting 1986-89 . HMAS Canberra Sea posting 1995-97 at Decommissioning in 2005, she is now a diving wreck off Victoria, Australia since 2009.
I was a plank owner of the USS Thach (FFG-43) and later served on the USS Rodney M Davis (FFG-60).
QMC for USS CROMMELIN(FFG-37), '87-'91.
They handled like a sports car. Excellent ships...my favorite command.
My only down-notes:
The minimum-crew concept and automation reared it's head from time-to-time, not only in watch-standing needs, but in design.
For instance, the helm and helmsman position. The "helm console" had two side-by-side positions/chairs... one for the helmsman and one was supposed to be for the Boatswain's mate of the Watch or Conning Officer/Junior Officer of the Deck. The latter position was almost always vacant, as the BMOW/CONN/JOOD were always needed elsewhere on the bridge to properly perform their duties.
The tiny helm and chair made steering difficult, without the feel of a wheel in your hands and the ship under your feet. Worse, the magnetic compass had to be placed in front of the helmsman to see it, but that also meant making if off the centerline...giving the compass an uncorrectable error due to the uneven effect of the ship's own magnetic field... an error that would be unthinkable even in the days of sail.
Lastly, even minor strains on the ship's complement of crew...emergency leave, TAD instruction, or just given bed rest for a minor illness... meant that port and starboard watch sections were very common for weeks at a stretch. Our QM allotment often meant 20-hour workdays every other day, even at full manning.
USS Nicholas FFG-47 Plankowner
OS2
That footage made feel incredibly nostalgic and......old.
In retrospect I enjoyed every second of my experiences with the Nasty Nick, even the miserably cold several months living in a converted supermarket in Bath Maine awaiting commissioning in March 1984.
Great ship and equally great crew
GMG3 90-94. We put the Nasty in the Nick. I started as a deck ape so did a "few" hrs at helm. Did we swap APU's for Fin Stabilizers? I know we had the stabs. but don't remember the APU's ( and we ALWAYS used tugs).
HAZE GRAY AND UNDER WAY!!
Wow. Built on time and on budget. The good old days when Lockheed Martin didn't have its tentacles everywhere in the defense procurement process.
Served on USS Lewis B Puller (FFG-23)1/86-12/89. Since decommissioned and sold to Egypt,still in active svc
i served on a Ticonderoga, but i love small ships and would've loved to serve on an OHP
I was a Knox class sailor. My ship was good, but the "Fig 7" remains the ultimate expression of the fleet ocean frigate.
My brother served on a Knox class.
I served on both Brother; I'll take a Knox over a Perry.
The so-called t i n sailor
LOL I remember go to the Saratoga CVG I was doing a check-up before I went to rescue swimmer School and people were coming in talk about seasickness oh my God as a sailor's I've been throwing against the wall bulkhead because we hit a wave wrong and this ship mate who literally lives in the city 5000 at least people on a carrier
Such a great ship class. Hopefully the FFG(X) competition yields a frigate as successful.
I don't think the Navy wants frigates, anymore. I served aboard FFG-7 and felt very comfortable with her capabilities (even without a CIWS), but the new Zumwalt class ships DO seem pretty bad-ass. Having been a GSE, I would LOVE to tour the engineering spaces in any Zumwalt class ship.
@@ktraglin all my respect
@@ktraglin Z'S are junk. decomed already
In 1977, I went aboard USS Fairfax County LST-1193 with my family when the ship was in Detroit, Michigan for a Great Lakes tour along with the USS Oliver Hazard Perry FFG-7 frigate. Both were neat, clean ships and the Navy personnel were dressed 1 st class. My dad was in the U.S. Navy aboard USS Louisville CA 28 heavy cruiser from 1943-46 and witnessed 51 sailors and Rear Admiral Theodore Chandler buried at sea in the Pacific due to (2) kamikaze in Jan. 1945 and (1) kamikaze in June 1945. God bless our service men and women - past and present!
I was on the USS crommelin FFG 37 on or about 1995. On 2016 she was use as a Rimpac sinkex ship she was called the ship that wouldn't die. Sad to have seen her go that way put she was one of the toughest ship I've sail. It sure was a fun ship.
A real waste.
Such handsome ships! I served on the last of the class in service, FFG-61, USS Ingraham.
I was a plank-owner on the USS Rodney M Davis FFG-60. I served from 1986-1990. I was one of the first assigned to the ship and when I left there was only one plank-owner left. Lots of good memories of shipmates and port calls. Especially PI. STG2 Barry Elmore
The Davis was sunk this past July.. I was in engineering from 89-91 . I sure do miss Her.
STGSN/STG3, USS Klakring, FFG-42, 1989-92. MISS THOSE DAYS!!!!
*_80's INTENSIFIES_*
These were way before my time but I always thought they were great looking and very capable ships. It's a shame they were all scrapped, as it seemed that the design was modular enough to have been inexpensively updated for another 20 years service.
wysoft yes look at what Australia and turkey did with there's.
They WERE very capable ships. Served on two of them.
It was a terribly short-sighted decision to get rid of them.
We still run them in the RAN
In 1984, when I arrived aboard FFG 12, she was being retrofit with the CIWS, prior to WESTPAC & a trip to the Persian Gulf. George Philip WAS a badass little ship...lol! Sadly, now she sits alongside two sister ships in a scrap yard.
They have not all been scrapped. There are still many in service, with foreign navies.
USS Hawes FFG 53 1987-1988. I loved this ship and would serve on her again if I could!!
My first war ship; USS Oliver Hazard Perry FFG-7. Commissioned December 17th 1977. Seaman Recruit Jerry Caldwell (Conner) USN
serious ?if its serious you can be happy of this beautiful boat
Great ships. FC1(SW) here. Mk 92 Mod 2 and Harpoon NEC's. FFG 23 USS Lewis B. Puller. May of 85 to Sept. 89.
My very first Navy ship shows up at 4:53 and 5:56 the USS Stephen W. Groves FFG-29. Good memories and good times.
I agree. I served on the Stephen W. Groves in about 1983 - 1984. Much better than the old steam powered ships.
Were you, by chance the MPA on the Groves at that time?
Yes. I was the MPA. I still have my ball cap from our ship. Were you also on the ship's first deployment?
I arrived on board in November of 1983, while the ship was underway, I believe that was the first deployment if I'm not mistaken. I transferred to the west coast in 1986. I ended up retiring from the Navy in 2004. I don't have a ball cap anymore but I have a few other souvenirs from the Groves and lots of pictures. I have been an avid photographer since high school. I have a profile on: navy.togetherweserved.com
I have cried several times, knowing my home for almost 4 years of life, is at the bottom of the drink., FFG-46 USS Rentz
I was a part of her sink exercise. It's an honor to hear someone who was on her.
I'd rather see a retired Navy ship on the bottom of the ocean than in a scrap yard. USN(Ret)
I understand.
Plankowner FFG-7 . THE Perry received the Navy & Marine Corp. Meritorious Unit Commendation around 1978-79.
GSE2, USS Copleand FFG-25. No those generators did not startup automatically. The ASM and the EPCC operator did the startup and phase/connection to the electrical grid.
I helped build this Ship the USS COPLAND. It was amazing. Many Todd Shipyard employees worked on your Ship to get to start to completion. It was in very pristine condition when it left our yard for deployments. Thank you for your service aboard our Ship Built USS COPLEAND FFG -25
Was on the Copeland 90-91 sure miss those days, fc2
Much better than the LCS crap we have now!
Should have reworked these, instead of building the defenseless aluminum targets the navy has put to sea!
They knew those ships were junk before they built them. Got a lot of 7-Figure jobs for Admirals post retirement though.
Perry class frigate: destroyer of hearing.
Put your earplugs in.
I served aboard the USS Reid FFG-30 from late 87-90. Great ship and crew. It now belongs to Turkey I believe.
Ray Johnson so did I
I was aboard for CD ops in the Eastern pacific & Caribbean, 1998 HSL-84 Det.
Simpson Plankowner here...
My grandfather was the first CO of the Perry, a good captain, and a better man
The USS Robert G. Bradley (FFG-49)... sure miss her!
FFG-16 Clifton Sprague, FFG-7, OHP, FFG-14 USS Sides
served aboard the s.e.morison ffg-13 and the clifton sprauge ffg-16, spruage was the first to decom.
I wish they would make a museum ship out of a Fig7
@Clint Cannon A shame too. USS Samuel B. Roberts would have been my pick.
An unintended result perhaps, but the size of the ships made for some fantastic camaraderie among the crews. I served on John A. Moore FFG-19, and Jarrett FFG-33, in the mid to late '80's and I can't imagine serving with better, more well rounded sailors than I did on those ships. Everyone had multiple jobs and we did them well. Great, great, ships. I echo the person who said they wished a FFG could be turned into a museum.
I served as a GSE on the FFG-33 & FFG 19 in that order from 88-95. Miss them a lot.
Too bad there is no museum ship.
@@judsonkr Our paths likely crossed on the Jarrett. I was an EN and I left in Nov' 88.
Onboard USS Ford (FFG54) 1987 - 1989.
ET onboard USS Flatley (FFG-21) 1987 to 1991
FC1 Blackwell USS Jarrett (FFG-33)!! 1997-2002 3 Gulf deployments in 5 years!!
Reported to the Jarrett in Sept 1989 and left from Hawaii on the way back in 1993 after 2 back to back Gulf deployments. Desert Storm 1990-1991 then again 1992-1993. She was scrapped in 2014 and is now razor blades.
The frigate also carries torpedo tubes, which was not mentioned in the video.
not to mention the NIXI ASW system....like a fishing lure for subs...lol!
Although I can't be sure, I think the tubes may have been a retrofit, and not all ships were outfitted identically.
Like the towed arrays that weren’t on the FFG-7 and others too.
I worked on the FFG project at ToDD Shipyard in Seattle . FFG 17 , the 28 and 31 . 1978--1983 . Shipfitter.
Boilermakers Union . Interesting work . Good time in my life
USS Gary FFG-51
2009-2012
OS2(SW)
FFG-7. 91-94. SPS49 and IFF was mine.
Thirty-plus years since FFG-12, and,sadly, most of these ships rot for scrap.
George Phillip
Sailed on her a bit TAD.
I was on the USS Midway for two years. Could not wait to get back to the TIN CAN Navy.
FFG-16, FFG-7, FFG-14
Served on USS Underwood FFG-36 '92-'95
USS Elrod (FFG-55) 2005-2007
EW2(SW) USS Boone FFG28 1995-2000
FF1052 and FFG 7 class were the best ships.
I appreciate the upload, but the audio makes this impossible to listen to.
I was on SE Morrison FFG13 and Estocin FFG15
courtney?
Is that the voice of Martin Sheen??
No.
OH my
FFG 37 USS Crommelin
RIP
Built in Seattle
USS Thomas C Hart 1092 Knox class frigate we did a lot of damage. We actually pulled over a merchant ship carrying over half a million at least weapons to Syria that would go to Iraq look it up Google it. I've been 100% since 2007 maybe I got lucky I still see by Shipmates with the same disease Gulf War syndrome and they barely get 10% how am I this lucky?
Pakistan Navy still operates one of this class
這一型軍艦以前經常來香港渡假包括洛克級🎉:洛克級轉售到臺灣
Anyone else take one cursory look at the Freedom and Independence classes and say to themselves “no way are these FFG-7 replacements”.
They should have been kept in production with incremental upgrades like the Arleigh Burkes.
Put a small 8 or 16 cell Mk41 forward where the Mk13 used to be, cant the superstructure surfaces inboard and apply stealth coatings for lower observability, a solid mast with an “Aegis lite” phased array radar. A RAM launcher on top, keep the 76mm, CIWS. torpedoes, the helicopter, and the towed array. Same basic propulsion system and equivalent displacement and reserve buoyancy through weight reduction of legacy systems and greater automation reducing crew complement and consumables required.
Getting rid of them was just a way for the Pentagon Admirals to get 7-Figure jobs after they retired.
These ships could STILL hold their own against the vast majority of the world.
標的艦のやつ見てきたけどかっこよかったのね
Correct!
LOL