USS Curts (FFG-38)
USS Curts (FFG-38)
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| Name: | Curts |
| Namesake: | Admiral Maurice Curts |
| Awarded: | 27 April 1979 |
| Builder: | Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California |
| Laid down: | 1 July 1981 |
| Launched: | 6 March 1982 |
| Acquired: | 2 September 1983 |
| Commissioned: | 8 October 1983 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 January 2013 |
| Homeport: | Naval Base San Diego |
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| Nickname(s): | ".38 Special" |
| Fate: | To be sunk as a target |
| Status: | 3 April 2013, arrived at NISMF Pearl Harbor |
| Badge: |  |
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| Class and type: | Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate |
| Displacement: | 4,100 long tons (4,200 t), full load |
| Length: | 453 feet (138 m), overall |
| Beam: | 45 feet (14 m) |
| Draft: | 22 feet (6.7 m) |
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| Speed: | over 29 knots (54 km/h) |
| Range: | 5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
AN/SLQ-32 |
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| Aircraft carried: | 2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters |
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USS Curts (FFG-38) was the twenty-ninth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class of guided-missile frigates. She was named for Admiral Maurice Curts (1898–1976). Curts is the first ship of that name in the US Navy.
Ordered from Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California on 27 April 1979 as part of the FY79 program, Curts was laid down on 1 July 1981, launched on 6 March 1982, and commissioned on 8 October 1983. She was decommissioned on 25 January 2013.
Curts's early years in commission were focused on anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations and Curts was the first Pacific Fleet unit with the complete SQQ-89 ASW suite. The ship received the meritorious unit commendation for tactical proficiency in the tracking of Soviet submarines in 1987.
In 1988, Curts received the armed forces expeditionary medal for serving with the USS Missouri battle group during Operation Earnest Will in the north Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman. Additionally, Curts changed homeport to Yokosuka, Japan, becoming one of the first two guided-missile frigates to join the Forward Deployed Naval Force (FDNF). Curts was first to bring the LAMPS MK III helicopters to Naval Air Facility Atsugi.
On 24 January 1991, during Operation Desert Storm, the ship and her embarked navy and army helicopters captured an Iraqi garrison on Qaruh Island in the northern Persian Gulf, taking the island and custody of 51 Iraqi prisoners. Curts destroyed two mines, sank an Iraqi minelayer and provided support to combat helicopter operations during the battle of Bubiyan Island. The ship received the navy unit commendation for her exceptional operational performance.
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