USS Ingraham (FFG-61)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Ingraham.
USS Ingraham in 2008
Career (US)
Namesake: Captain Duncan Ingraham
Builder: Todd Pacific Shipyards, San Pedro, California
Laid down: 30 March 1987
Launched: 25 June 1988
Commissioned: 5 August 1989
Decommissioned: 12 November 2014
Out of service: 12 November 2014
Homeport: NS Everett, Washington
Motto: Heritage of Gallantry
Status: Decommissioned
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Displacement:4,100 tons (4,165 t) full load
Length:453 ft (138.1 m), overall
Beam:45 ft (13.7 m)
Draft:27 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion:2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and controllable-pitch propeller
Speed:29+ knots (54+ km/h)
Range:5,000 nm (9,300 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement:15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 18 enlisted men
Armament:1 ×OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun
2 × Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes
1 × Vulcan Phalanx CIWS
4 × .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns.
Aircraft carried:2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters
Nickname(s):"The Ham" or The Mighty "I"

USS Ingraham (FFG-61), the last American Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate to be built, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Captain Duncan Ingraham (1802–1891).

USS Ingraham was laid down on 30 March 1987 at the Todd Pacific Shipyards Co., Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California. She was launched on 25 June 1988. Ingraham was decommissioned on 12 November 2014.

As of December 2014, prior to decommissioning, Ingraham was commanded by CDR Dan Straub, USN. Ingraham‍ '​s former homeport is at NS Everett, Washington, and was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 9.[1][2]

Small craft suspected to be from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy (IRGCN), maneuvers in close proximity of USS Ingraham.

On 6 January 2008, the destroyer USS Hopper, the guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal, and the frigate USS Ingraham were entering the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz when five Iranian motor boats approached them at high speed and in a reportedly threatening manner. The American ships had been in the Arabian Sea searching for a sailor who had been missing from USS Hopper for one day. The U.S. Navy reported that the Iranian boats made "threatening" moves toward the U.S. vessels, coming as close as 200 yards (180 m). The U.S. Navy ships received a radio transmission saying, "I am coming to you. You will explode after few minutes." While the American ships prepared to open fire, the Iranians abruptly turned away, the U.S. Navy officials said. Before leaving, the Iranians dropped white boxes into the water in front of the American ships. The American ships did not investigate the boxes. Officials from the two countries differed on their assessments of the severity of the incident. The Iranians claimed that they were conducting normal maneuvers, whereas American officials claimed that an imminent danger to American naval vessels existed.[3]

On 29 September 2009, Ingraham was en route to American Samoa and was the first U.S. military asset to arrive and assist in the recovery efforts following the 2009 Samoa earthquake.[4][5]

After returning from her final deployment in October 2014, USS Ingraham was decommissioned on 12 November 2014 at Naval Station Everett. Following decommisioning, she was towed to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS), located at Naval Station Kitsap, in Bremerton, WA to await scrapping.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "CO's Bio". United States Navy. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
  2. ↑ "USS Ingraham Holds Change of Command". United States Navy. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
  3. ↑ "Iranian boats 'harass' U.S. Navy, officials say". CNN. 7 January 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2008.
  4. ↑ "Hawaii Guard, Navy bound for American Samoa". Navy Times. 1 October 2009. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
  5. ↑ "Ingraham Contributes to Navy's HADR mission" (PDF). Surface Warfare. 7 January 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2010.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.

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