USS John L. Hall (FFG-32)

USS John L. Hall (FFG-32)
History
United States
Name: John L. Hall
Namesake: Admiral John L. Hall, Jr.
Awarded: 23 January 1978
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Laid down: 5 January 1981
Launched: 24 July 1981
Sponsored by: Dr. Susan Hall Godson (niece and biographer of Admiral Hall)
Commissioned: 26 June 1982
Decommissioned: 9 March 2012
Identification:
Motto:
  • Semper Victores
  • (Always Victorious)
Nickname(s): "The Johnny"
General characteristics [1]
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)
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:
Electronic warfare
& decoys:		 AN/SLQ-32
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters

USS John L. Hall (FFG-32), twenty-fourth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Admiral John L. Hall, Jr. (1891–1978).

Ordered from Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, on 23 January 1978 as part of the FY78 program, John L. Hall was laid down on 5 January 1981, launched on 24 July 1981, and commissioned on 26 June 1982.

On 28 August 2005, under the command of Commander David Geisler, she sailed from her home port, NS Pascagoula, Mississippi, along with sister ship Stephen W. Groves under threat from Hurricane Katrina.

In 2007, she remained active, commanded by Commander Augustus P. Bennet, assigned to Destroyer Squadron 14, and homeported at NAVSTA Mayport, Florida. In August 2008, while underway to avoid Tropical Storm Fay, the scheduled change of command occurred with Commander Derek Lavan assuming command of the vessel.

21 April 2010, seen docked in Sevastopol (UA).[2]

On 22 June 2010, then CO Commander Herman Pfaeffle was relieved of command after striking a pier on 16 April 2010 in Batumi in the republic of Georgia[3]

On 9 March 2012, the John L. Hall was decommissioned at Naval Station Mayport.

In November 2012 she was still at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

References

  1. ↑ "USS John L. Hall (FFG 32)". Navsource.org. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://news.tochka.net/43112-lyudi-vitrenko-obrugali-natovskiy-korabl-foto
  3. ↑ http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/09/navy-David-Solms-relieved-091410/

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