![]() USS Stark (FFG-31)
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Name | Stark |
Namesake | Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark |
Awarded | 23 January 1978 |
Builder | Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle, Washington |
Laid down | 24 August 1979 |
Launched | 30 May 1980 |
Commissioned | 23 October 1982 |
Decommissioned | 7 May 1999 |
Stricken | 7 May 1999 |
Homeport | Naval Station Mayport (former) |
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Motto | Strength for Freedom |
Fate | Scrapped 2006 |
Badge | ![]() |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and 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) |
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 | 1 × SH-2F LAMPS I |
Notes | Short deck variant, no towed array |
USS Stark (FFG-31) was the 23rd ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates and was named after Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark (1880–1972). Ordered from Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, Washington, on 23 January 1978, Stark was laid down on 24 August 1979, launched on 30 May 1980, and commissioned on 23 October 1982. In 1987, an Iraqi jet fired two missiles at Stark, killing 37 U.S. sailors on board. Decommissioned on 7 May 1999, Stark was scrapped in 2006.