FFG43 THACH USS Missile Frigate & PHM1 PEGASUS CLASS USS Patrol Missile Hydrofoil

The Oliver Hazard Perry class is a class of frigates named after the American Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the naval Batle of Lake Erie. Also known as the Perry or FFG-7 class, the warships were designed in the United States in the mid-1970s as general-purpose escort vessels inexpensive enough to be bought in large quantities to replace World War II-era destroyers and complement 1960s-era Knox class frigates. The FFG-7s were the low capability ships to provide numbers with the Spruance destroyers the high capability ships for 1970s construction, in Admiral Zumwalt's, high low fleet plan. Intended to protect amphibious landing forces, supply and replenishment groups, and merchant convoys from aircraft and submarines, they also later were part of battleship-centric surface action groups and aircraft carrier battle groups/strike groups. Fifty-five ships were built in the United States: 51 for the United States Navy and four for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). In addition, eight were built in Taiwan, six in Spain, and two in Australia for their navies. Former U.S. Navy warships of this class have been sold or donated to the navies of Bahrein, Egypt, poland, Pakistan and Turkey.

The Navy built 51 of the Oliver Hazard Perry frigates, with the first going into service in 1977, and the last to be finally moth-balled, or transferred to other navies for continued service, in 2015. Some of the U.S. Navy's frigates, such as USS Duncan (14.6 years in service) had fairly short careers, while a few lasted as long as 30+ years in active U.S. service, and some lasting even longer after being sold or donated to other navies.

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FFG8 - USS MCINERNEY
FFG36 - USS UNDERWOOD
FFG37 - USS CROMMELIN
FFG38 - USS CURTS
FFG39 - USS DOYLE
FFG40 - USS HALYBURTON
FFG41 - USS MCCLUSKY
FFG42 - USS KLAKRING
FFG43 - USS THACH
FFG45 - USS DE WERT
FFG46 - USS RENTZ
FB1 - SANTA MARIA "Spanish Navy" (Santa Maria Class)
FB-2 - VICTORIA "Spanish Navy" (Santa Maria Class)

The Pegasus-class hydrofoils were a series of fast attack patrol boats employed by the US.Navy. They were in service from 1977 through 1993. These hydrofoils carried the designation "PHM" for "Patrol, Hydrofoil, Missile." The Pegasus class vessels were originally intended for NATO operations in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Subsequently, participation by other NATO navies, including Germany and Italy, ceased and the U.S. Navy proceeded to procure six PHMs, which were highly successful in conducting coastal operations, such as narcotics interdiction and coastal patrol, in the Caribbean basin.

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