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USS Klakring
_in_Souda_Bay,_Greece.jpg) USS Klakring arrives for a brief port visit at Souda Bay in 2004.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Klakring |
| Namesake | Rear Admiral Thomas B. Klakring |
| Awarded | 27 April 1979 |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down | 19 February 1982 |
| Launched | 18 September 1982 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Beverly Bohen |
| Commissioned | 20 August 1983 |
| Decommissioned | 22 March 2013 |
| Stricken | 22 March 2013 |
| Homeport | Mayport, Florida |
| Identification |
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| Motto | "Freedom Through Vigilance" |
| Status | Stricken, to be disposed of |
| Badge |  |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and 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 |
| Aviation facilities | |
USS Klakring (FFG-42), an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Rear Admiral Thomas B. Klakring (1904–1975), who was awarded three Navy Crosses as commander of the submarine USS Guardfish during World War II.
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