HTMS Phutthaloetla Naphalai

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Career

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) (Thai: พุทธเลิศหล้านภาลัย ) is the former USS Ouellet (FF-1077), a 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 US $14M refit at the Cascade General Shipyard, Portland, Oregon, and arrived in Thailand in 1998.

As a Phutthayotfa Chulalok-class frigate, she has a sister ship, the HTMS Phuttahayotfa Chulalok (FFG 461).