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USS Clifton Sprague , 17 November 1980
History
United States
Name Clifton Sprague
Namesake Vice Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague
Ordered 27 February 1976
Builder Bath Iron Works , Bath, Maine
Laid down 30 July 1979
Launched 16 February 1980
Sponsored by Courtney Sprague Vaughan, daughter of Adm. Sprague
Commissioned 21 March 1981
Decommissioned 2 June 1995
Stricken 4 September 1997
Homeport Naval Station Mayport
Identification
Motto "Nunc Paratus" (Ready Now)
Fate Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP)
Badge
TCG Gaziantep , 31 May 2010
History
Turkey
Name TCG Gaziantep
Namesake City of Gaziantep
Acquired 27 August 1997
Identification Hull number : F 490
Status in active service
General characteristics
Class and type Oliver Hazard Perry -class frigate
Displacement 4,100 long tons (4,200 t ), full load
Length 445 feet (136 m ), overall
Beam 45 feet (14 m )
Draft 22 feet (6.7 m )
Propulsion
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
Sensors and processing systems list error: mixed text and list (help ) As Built
G-Class Frigate:
Combat Management System: GENESIS (Gemi Entegre Savaş İdare Sistemi )[1]
Search radar: SMART-S Mk2 [2]
Electronic warfare & decoys AN/SLQ-32
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G-Class Frigate:
Aircraft carried 1 × SH-2F LAMPS I helicopter
USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16) was an Oliver Hazard Perry -class guided missile frigate of the United States Navy , the tenth ship of that class. She was named for Vice Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague (1896–1955), hero of the Battle off Samar action of the Battle of Leyte Gulf , where he received the Navy Cross . Clifton Sprague (FFG-16) was the first ship of that name in the US Navy. She was transferred to the Turkish Naval Forces in 1997 as TCG Gaziantep (F 490) and remains in active service.
History
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Ordered from Bath Iron Works on 27 February 1976 as part of the FY76 program, Clifton Sprague was laid down 30 July 1979, launched 16 February 1980, and commissioned 21 March 1981.
Clifton Sprague was part of the forces during Operation Urgent Fury, the US led 1983 Invasion of Grenada .[5] The frigate served as the clandestine mother ship for a pre-invasion reconnaissance team of Navy SEALs and Air Force combat controllers. Prior to D-Day on 25 Oct., the 20-man commando force twice attempted to use small boats launched from the frigate to reach a new airport under construction on Grenada's southwest coast. Their nighttime attempts to make an assessment of its military defenses and the condition of its uncompleted runway were frustrated both times by rough seas, equipment failures and bad luck.[6]
In July 1993, the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg and Clifton Sprague participated in a passing exercise (PASSEX) with three Russian ships, cruiser Marshal Ustinov , destroyer Admiral Kharlamov and the replenishment ship Dnester . This was noteworthy because the two navies had an adversarial relationship for decades prior to the Dissolution of the Soviet Union .[7]
Clifton Sprague was part of the flotilla for Operation Uphold Democracy , the September 1995 US intervention in Haiti.[8]
She was decommissioned on 2 June 1995 at Naval Station Mayport , Florida, and was stricken from the US Navy register on 4 September 1997 after being transferred to Turkey .
TCG Gaziantep (F 490)
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She was transferred to Turkey on 27 August 1997 as that nation's TCG Gaziantep (F 490), and then immediately modified into a G-class frigate by the Turkish Naval Yard. As of 2011, she was still in active service.
Awards
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Clifton Sprague and her crew received the following unit awards, according to the US Navy unit awards website:[9]
Navy E Ribbon , 1 October 1980 to 30 September 1981
Navy E Ribbon , 1 October 1981 to 30 September 1982
Navy Expeditionary Medal , 18 April 1983 to 22 April 1983, 1983 United States embassy bombing , Lebanon
Meritorious Unit Commendation , 23 October 1983 to 2 November 1983, Invasion of Grenada / Operation Urgent Fury
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal , 23 October 1983 to 18 November 1983, Invasion of Grenada / Operation Urgent Fury
Navy E Ribbon 1 October 1983 to 31 March 1985
Navy E Ribbon 1 April 1985 to 30 September 1986
Coast Guard Special Operations Service Ribbon for 1 April 1989
Coast Guard Special Operations Service Ribbon , 1 July 1989 to 30 September 1989
Secretary of the Navy Letter of Commendation, 1 December 1989 to 1 April 1990
Joint Meritorious Unit Award , 28 January 1991 to 25 February 1991, this was in the Desert Storm time period, but FFG-16 was not listed as participating in the Gulf War.[10]
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal , 16 September 1994 to 24 September 1994, Operation Uphold Democracy Haiti
Meritorious Unit Commendation , 11 September 1994 to 31 March 1995, Operation Uphold Democracy Haiti
National Defense Service Medal for service during the Gulf War era
Clifton Sprague was also nominated for the United States Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation for operations from 24 June 1994 to 12 July 1994, but did not receive the award. This was around the time that many refugees were fleeing Haiti in small boats.[11]
References
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^ ">First Turkish Perry With Mk-41 VLS On" . Turkishnavy.net . 19 March 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2021 .
^ Lockheed Martin to Upgrade Ship Defense System on Turkish Navy Frigates Archived 2009-09-04 at the Wayback Machine , Lockheed Martin, 17 February 2009
^ "Facts: 30th Anniversary of the U-S-Caribbean Intervention in Grenada" . US Southern Command .
^ Kukielski, Philip (2019). The U.S. Invasion of Grenada : legacy of a flawed victory . Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co. pp. 28–30. ISBN 978-1-4766-7879-5 . OCLC 1123182247 .
^ "USS Gettysburg trains with Russian Ships". Gettysburg Times . Associated Press. 7 July 1993.
^ "American Flotilla". Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph . Associated Press. 15 September 1994.
^ "Unit Awards" . US Navy . Archived from the original on 14 October 2004.
^ "Desert Storm Apdx B" . US Naval History and Heritage Command .
^ "Haitians to go to Guantanamo". Syracuse Herald-Journal . Syracuse, New York . Associated Press. 29 June 1994.
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 .
External links
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R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Clifton_Sprague&oldid=1212555272 "
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