HTMS Phutthaloetla Naphalai
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Ordered: | |
Laid down: | January 15, 1969 at Avondale Shipyards, Westwego, Louisiana |
Launched: | January 17, 1970 |
Commissioned: | December 20, 1970 |
Decommissioned: | August 6, 1993 |
Fate: | Reclassified FF-1077 June 30, 1975. Sold to Royal Thai Navy November 27, 1996 |
Struck: | January 11, 1995 |
General Characteristics | |
Displacement: | 4,065 tons |
Length: | 438 feet (133.5 meters) |
Beam: | 47 feet (14.4 meters) |
Draft: | 25 feet (7.6 meters) |
Propulsion: | Steam turbine, 2 1,200 psi boilers; 1 geared turbine, 1 shaft; 35,000 shaft horsepower |
Speed: | 27 knots |
Radar: | SPS-40B 2-D air search |
Sonar: | SQS-26CX bow, SQR-18 towed |
Complement: | 250 officers and enlisted |
Armament: | SPG-53 gun control, EW: SLQ-32(V)1 passive intercept, 8 ASROC, 4 Harpoon, 4 Torpedo Mk-32 tubes with Torpedo Mk-44 and Torpedo Mk 44, 1 5/54 Gun, 1 20 mm Phalanx CIWS |
Aircraft: | helicopter deck and hangar |
Motto: |
HTMS Phutthaloetla Naphalai (FFG 462) is the former USS Ouellet (FF-1077), Knox class frigate.
The Royal Thai Navy purchased the ship from the US Navy after she was decommissioned on August 6, 1993. The ship subsequently underwent a $14M (US) refit at the Cascade General Shipyard, Portland, Oregon, and arrived in Thailand in 1998.
A Phutthayotfa Chulalok class frigate, she has a sister ship, the HTMS Phutthayotfa Chulalok (FFG 461).