| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HTMS Phutthaloetla Naphalai |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyards, Westwego, Louisiana |
| Laid down: | 15 January 1969 |
| Launched: | 17 January 1970 |
| Acquired: | 27 November 1996 |
| Commissioned: | 1997 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Knox-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 4,065 long tons (4,130 t) |
| Length: | 438 ft (134 m) |
| Beam: | 47 ft (14 m) |
| Draft: | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam turbine 2 × 1,200 psi boilers 1 geared turbine 1 shaft 35,000 shp (26,099 kW) |
| Speed: | 27 knots (31 mph; 50 km/h) |
| Complement: | 250 officers and enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
SPS-40B 2-D air search radar SPG-53 fire control radar SQS-26CX bow sonar SQR-18 towed sonar SLQ-32(V)1 passive intercept |
| Armament: | • 8 × ASROC anti-submarine missiles • 4 × Harpoon missiles • 4 × Mk.32 torpedo tubes with Mark 44 torpedoes • 1 × 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun • 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter deck and hangar |
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 Phutthayotfa Chulalok (FFG 461).