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Class overview
Namesake: Chaplain George S. Rentz
Builders: Todd Pacific Shipyards Corps.
Operator: United States Navy
Motto: Dread Naught
Ship number: 46
In commission: June 30, 1984
Active: 1

Laid down: September 18, 1982
Launched: July 16, 1983
Sponsored by: Mrs. Neil F. Lansing, daughter of Chaplain Rentz
Commissioned: June 30, 1984
In service: In active service, as of 2011
Homeport: Naval Base San Diego

 

General characteristics

Class and type: Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Displacement: 4,100 tons
Length: 453 feet
Beam: 45 feet
Draft: 24.6 feet
Propulsion: 2 General Electric LM2500-30 gas-powered turbines generating 41,000 hp through a single shaft and variable pitch propeller. 2 Auxiliary Propulsion Units, 350 hp w/ retractable electric azipods for maneuvering and docking.
Speed: Over 29 knots
Range: 5,000 nautical miles
Sailors Aboard: 17 officers and 195 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems:

AN/SPS - 49 air search radar

AN/SPS - 55 surface search radar

CAS & STIR fire control radar

AN/SQS - 56 sonar

Electronic warfare
and decoys:

 

AN/SLQ - 32

Armament:

1 MK-75 3"/62 caliber rapid fire gun
1 MK-15 MOD 1 Close-in-Weapons System (CIWS)
6 MK-46 torpedoes (from two MK-32 SVTT triple mounts)

Armor: Classified
Aircraft carried: Two SH-60 Sea Hawk (LAMPS MK III) helicopters

 

 

USS Rentz (FFG-46) Description

 

 

 

 

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