USS Underwood FFG-36
USS Underwood underway in the Caribbean Sea in 2006
History
United States
NameUnderwood
NamesakeCaptain Gordon Waite Underwood
Ordered27 April 1979
BuilderBath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Laid down30 July 1981
Launched6 February 1982
Sponsored byElizabeth T. Underwood
Christened6 February 1982
Acquired14 January 1983
Commissioned29 January 1983
Decommissioned8 March 2013
HomeportMayport, Florida
Identification
Motto"Fear the Wood"
StatusUndergoing scrapping
Badge
General characteristics
Class and typeOliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Displacement4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load
Length453 feet (138 m), overall
Beam45 feet (14 m)
Draught22 feet (6.7 m)
Propulsion
Speedover 29 knots (54 km/h)
Range5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h)
Complement17 Officers and 198 Enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers
Sensors and
processing systems
Electronic warfare
& decoys		AN/SLQ-32
Armament
Aircraft carried2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters
Underwood passing under the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge, June 2006

USS Underwood (FFG-36) was the twenty-seventh ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class of guided-missile frigates, named for Captain Gordon Waite Underwood (1910–1978).

Ordered from Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, on 27 April 1979 as part of the FY79 program, Underwood was laid down on 30 July 1981, launched on 6 February 1982, and commissioned on 29 January 1983. She was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 14 and homeported at Mayport, FL.

On 13 January 2010, Underwood was ordered to assist in the humanitarian relief efforts following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[1]

Underwood was extensively used to counteract drug trafficking in Latin America with the assistance of the Coast Guard.[2]

Underwood was decommissioned at Naval Station Mayport on 8 March 2013.[3] It was then moved to the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where it was laid up.

On 27 February 2023, Underwood arrived at Brownsville, Texas, where it will be scrapped.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Bacon, Lance M. (13 January 2010). "Carl Vinson, 6 Other Ships Headed to Haiti". Navy Times. Archived from the original on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
  2. ↑ "America's Expanding War on Drugs in Latin America". HuffPost. 3 February 2013.
  3. ↑ https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/military/2013/03/13/farewell-uss-underwood/15835414007/
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rukR5dgl6SM

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