Country: USA.
Class, [Type]: Hamilton, [WHEC].
Homeport: Charleston.

Callsign: NPCR (     )

Builder: Avondale Shipyards Inc, New Orlean, USA.
Laid down: 7 February 1966.
Launch date: 1 October 1966.
Commission date: 1 October 1967.
Decommission date: 30 March 2012.

Displacement ( tons ): 2700 standard, 3000 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 115 x 13 x 6.
Main machinery: CODAG: Diesel and Gas turbine: 2 x diesels, 2 x turbines ( 28000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 29.
Range ( miles ): 14000 at 11 knots.
Complement: 162 ( 19 officers ).

Guns: 1 x 1 76mm Mk75 OTO Melara Compact, 1 x 1 25mm Mk38 Bushmaster, 1 x 6 20mm GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS, 4 x 1 12,7mm.

Radars: Air: AN/SPS-40; Surface: AN/SPS-73; Fire Control: Mk92.
Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 x Mk36 SRBOC; ESM: AN/WLR-1C, AN/WLR-3.
Helicopters: 1 x HH-65A Dolphin.

Year of visit the Black Sea:  1995 | 2008