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Last updated February 16, 2024

This is a list of frigates of the United States Navy , sorted by hull number. It includes all of the hull classification symbols FF and FFG. Prior to the 1975 ship reclassification, ships that are now classified as FF or FFG were classified as DE or DEG (destroyer escort). The Oliver Hazard Perry class has been retired from active duty in the Navy as of 2015, and use has been replaced by the Littoral Combat Ship, to be augmented by the planned Constellation class guided-missile frigates.

Bronstein-class FF

The Bronstein class comprised 2 ships, commissioned in 1963. They were both decommissioned in December 1990, and donated to Mexico in 1993.

#	Name	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Class	Status
FF-1037	Bronstein	1963	13 December 1990	Bronstein class	Donated to Mexico, 12 November 1993
FF-1038	McCloy	1963	14 December 1990	Bronstein class	Donated to Mexico, 12 November 1993

Garcia-class FF

The Garcia class comprised 10 ships, commissioned from 1964 to 1968. The last active duty ship in the US of this class, the USS Voge (FF-1047), was decommissioned in August 1989.

#	Name	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Class	Status
FF-1040	Garcia	1964	30 January 1989	Garcia class	Scrapped, 29 March 1994
FF-1041	Bradley	1965	30 September 1988	Garcia class	Transferred to Brazil
FF-1043	Edward McDonnell	1965	30 September 1988	Garcia class	Scrapped; dismantling, 21 August 2002
FF-1044	Brumby	1965	31 March 1989	Garcia class	Disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 28 September 1994
FF-1045	Davidson	1965	8 December 1988	Garcia class	Transferred to Brazil
FF-1047	Voge	1966	23 August 1989	Garcia class	Scrapped; dismantling 19 January 2001
FF-1048	Sample	1968	23 September 1988	Garcia class	Leased to Brazil, 1989
FF-1049	Koelsch	1968	31 May 1989	Garcia class	Scrapped in Hong Kong
FF-1050	Albert David	1968	28 September 1988	Garcia class	Initially leased, then sold, to Brazil on 24 January 2001
FF-1051	O'Callahan	1968	20 December 1988	Garcia class	Scrapped in Hong Kong

Knox-class FF

The Knox class comprised 46 ships, commissioned between 1969 and 1974. The last ship of this class in active US service, the USS Truett (FF-1095), was decommissioned in July 1994.

#	Name	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Class	Status
FF-1052	Knox	1969	14 February 1992	Knox class	Sunk as target, 7 August 2007
FF-1053	Roark	1969	14 December 1991	Knox class	Scrapped in 2004
FF-1054	Gray	1970	29 June 1991	Knox class	Scrapped, 21 July 2001
FF-1055	Hepburn	1969	20 December 1991	Knox class	Sunk as target, 4 June 2002
FF-1056	Connole	1969	30 August 1992	Knox class	Transferred to Greece, 1992
FF-1057	Rathburne	1970	14 February 1992	Knox class	Sunk as target, 5 July 2002
FF-1058	Meyerkord	1969	14 December 1991	Knox class	Scrapped beginning on 15 December 2001
FF-1059	W. S. Sims	1970	6 September 1991	Knox class	Transferred to Turkey for spare parts, 21 December 1999
FF-1060	Lang	1970	12 December 1991	Knox class	Sold for scrapping, 15 December 2001
FF-1061	Patterson	1970	30 September 1991	Knox class	Sold for scrapping, late September 1999
FF-1062	Whipple	1970	14 February 1992	Knox class	Transferred to Mexico as ARM Mina (F-214), 10 April 2002
FF-1063	Reasoner	1971	28 August 1993	Knox class	Sold to Turkey, renamed Kocatepe
FF-1064	Lockwood	1970	27 September 1993	Knox class	Disposed of by Recycling, 4 August 2000
FF-1065	Stein	1972	19 March 1992	Knox class	Donated to Mexico
FF-1066	Marvin Shields	1971	2 July 1992	Knox class	Donated to Mexico
FF-1067	Francis Hammond	1970	2 July 1992	Knox class	Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling 31 March 2003
FF-1068	Vreeland	1970	30 June 1992	Knox class	Transferred to Greece, 30 June 1992
FF-1069	Bagley	1972	26 September 1991	Knox class	Disposed of by Recycling, 19 September 2000
FF-1070	Downes	1971	14 February 1992	Knox class	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, 15 August 2003
FF-1071	Badger	1970	20 December 1991	Knox class	Sunk as a target, 22 July 1998
FF-1072	Blakely	1970	15 November 1991	Knox class	Scrapped, dismantling, 30 September 2000
FF-1073	Robert E. Peary	1972	7 August 1992	Knox class	Transferred to Taiwan as Chi Yang (FF-932)
FF-1074	Harold E. Holt	1971	2 July 1992	Knox class	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, RIMPAC 2002, 10 July 2002
FF-1075	Trippe	1970	30 July 1992	Knox class	Transferred to Greece, July 1992
FF-1076	Fanning	1971	31 July 1993	Knox class	Transferred to Turkey on 31 July 1993; renamed Adatepe (F-251); decommissioned 2001
FF-1077	Ouellet	1970	6 August 1993	Knox class	Transferred to Thailand as Phuttaloetla Naphalai (F-462)
FF-1078	Joseph Hewes	1971	30 June 1994	Knox class	Transferred to Taiwan as Lan Yang (FF-935)
FF-1079	Bowen	1971	30 June 1994	Knox class	Transferred to Turkey, 22 February 2002
FF-1080	Paul	1971	14 August 1992	Knox class	Transferred to Turkey, 9 January 2000
FF-1081	Aylwin	1971	15 May 1992	Knox class	Transferred to Taiwan, 29 April 1998, as Ni Yang (F-938)
FF-1082	Elmer Montgomery	1971	30 June 1993	Knox class	Transferred to Turkey, 13 December 1993
FF-1083	Cook	1971	30 April 1992	Knox class	Transferred to Taiwan, 29 September 1999
FF-1084	McCandless	1972	6 May 1994	Knox class	Transferred to Turkey, 2 February 2002
FF-1085	Donald B. Beary	1972	20 May 1994	Knox class	Transferred to Turkey, 2 February 2002
FF-1086	Brewton	1972	2 July 1992	Knox class	Transferred to Taiwan, 29 September 1999
FF-1087	Kirk	1972	6 August 1993	Knox class	Transferred to Taiwan, as Fen Yang
FF-1088	Barbey	1972	20 March 1992	Knox class	Sold to Taiwan in 1999
FF-1089	Jesse L. Brown	1973	27 July 1994	Knox class	Transferred to Egypt, 27 July 1994
FF-1090	Ainsworth	1973	27 May 1994	Knox class	Transferred to Turkey, 27 May 1994
FF-1091	Miller	1973	15 October 1991	Knox class	Sold to Turkey as a hulk (19 July 1999); subsequently sunk as a target in the Turkish Seawolf 2001 naval exercise, June 2001
FF-1092	Thomas C. Hart	1973	30 August 1993	Knox class	Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP), transferred to Turkey
FF-1093	Capodanno	1973	30 July 1993	Knox class	Leased and then sold to Turkey
FF-1094	Pharris	1974	15 April 1992	Knox class	Donated to Mexico
FF-1095	Truett	1974	30 July 1994	Knox class	Leased to Royal Thai Navy in 1994 and eventually sold, 9 December 1999
FF-1096	Valdez	1974	16 December 1991	Knox class	Transferred to Taiwan, renamed Yi Yang (F-939)
FF-1097	Moinester	1974	28 July 1994	Knox class	Transferred to Egypt, 28 June 1994

Glover-class AGFF

The Glover class, a subclass of the Garcia class, comprised 1 ship, the USS Glover (FF-1098). She was in commission from 1965 to 1990.

#	Name	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Class	Status
FF-1098	Glover	1965	15 June 1990	Garcia class	Sold for scrap, 15 April 1994

Brooke-class FFG

The Brooke class comprised 6 ships, commissioned from 1966 to 1968. The last active-duty ship of this class, the USS Julius A. Furer (FFG-6), was decommissioned in January 1989.

#	Name	Commissioned	Class	Status
FFG-1	Brooke	1966	Brooke class	Decommissioned: 16 September 1988. Disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 28 March 1994
FFG-2	Ramsey	1967	Brooke class	Decommissioned: 1 September 1988. Sunk as a target, 15 June 2000
FFG-3	Schofield	1968	Brooke class	Decommissioned: 8 September 1988. Sunk as a target, 2 November 1999
FFG-4	Talbot	1967	Brooke class	Decommissioned: 30 September 1988. Sold for scrap, 9 March 1994
FFG-5	Richard L. Page	1967	Brooke class	Decommissioned: 30 September 1988. Disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 28 March 1994
FFG-6	Julius A. Furer	1967	Brooke class	Decommissioned: 31 January 1989. Disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 28 March 1994

Oliver Hazard Perry-class FFG

The Oliver Hazard Perry class comprised 51 ships, commissioned between 1977 and 1989. The last active duty ship in the US of this class, the USS Simpson (FFG-56), was decommissioned in September 2015.^[1]

#	Name	Commissioned	Class	Status
FFG-7	Oliver Hazard Perry	1977	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 20 February 1997. Scrapped
FFG-8	McInerney	1979	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 31 August 2010. Donated to Pakistani Navy, recommissioned as PNS Alamgir (F-260)
FFG-9	Wadsworth	1980	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 28 June 2002. Transferred to Poland and renamed ORP Generał Tadeusz Kościuszko
FFG-10	Duncan	1980	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 17 December 1994. Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP)
FFG-11	Clark	1980	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 15 March 2000. Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP)
FFG-12	George Philip	1980	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 15 March 2003. Stricken, to be disposed
FFG-13	Samuel Eliot Morison	1981	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 10 April 2002. Sold to Turkey, 11 April 2002, renamed TCG Gokova (F-496)
FFG-14	Sides	1981	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 28 February 2003. Stricken, to be disposed
FFG-15	Estocin	1981	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 3 April 2003. Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP)
FFG-16	Clifton Sprague	1981	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 2 June 1995. Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP)
FFG-19	John A. Moore	1981	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 1 September 2000. Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP)
FFG-20	Antrim	1981	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 8 May 1996. Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP)
FFG-21	Flatley	1981	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 11 May 1996. Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP)
FFG-22	Fahrion	1982	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 31 March 1998. Transferred to Egyptian Navy, 31 March 1998
FFG-23	Lewis B. Puller	1982	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 18 September 1998. Transferred to Egyptian Navy, 18 September 1998
FFG-24	Jack Williams	1981	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 13 September 1996. Transferred to Bahrain, 1996
FFG-25	Copeland	1982	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 18 September 1996. Transferred to Egyptian Navy, 18 September 1996
FFG-26	Gallery	1981	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 14 June 1996. Transferred to Egyptian Navy, 25 September 1996
FFG-27	Mahlon S. Tisdale	1982	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 27 September 1996. Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP)
FFG-28	Boone	1982	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 23 February 2012
FFG-29	Stephen W. Groves	1982	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 24 February 2012
FFG-30	Reid	1983	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 25 September 1998. Transferred to Turkey, 1999
FFG-31	Stark	1982	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 7 May 1999. Scrapped – dismantled 21 June 2006
FFG-32	John L. Hall	1982	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 9 March 2012
FFG-33	Jarrett	1983	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 21 April 2011. Decommissioned; to be transferred under FMS
FFG-34	Aubrey Fitch	1982	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 12 December 1997. Scrapped, dismantling
FFG-36	Underwood	1983	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 15 February 2013
FFG-37	Crommelin	1983	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 26 October 2012; Sunk as target during RIMPAC 2016
FFG-38	Curts	1983	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 27 February 2013
FFG-39	Doyle	1983	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 29 July 2011
FFG-40	Halyburton	1984	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 8 September 2014
FFG-41	McClusky	1983	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 14 January 2015
FFG-42	Klakring	1983	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 22 March 2013
FFG-43	Thach	1983	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 1 November 2013; Sunk as target during RIMPAC 2016
FFG-45	De Wert	1983	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 4 April 2014
FFG-46	Rentz	1984	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 23 May 2014
FFG-47	Nicholas	1984	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 17 March 2014
FFG-48	Vandegrift	1984	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 19 February 2015
FFG-49	Robert G. Bradley	1984	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 28 March 2014
FFG-50	Taylor	1984	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 8 May 2015 (planned transfer to Taiwan)
FFG-51	Gary	1984	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 23 July 2015 (planned transfer to Taiwan)
FFG-52	Carr	1985	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 13 March 2013
FFG-53	Hawes	1985	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 10 December 2010
FFG-54	Ford	1985	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 31 October 2013
FFG-55	Elrod	1985	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 30 January 2015
FFG-56	Simpson	1985	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 29 September 2015
FFG-57	Reuben James	1986	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 18 July 2013. Sunk as a target 18 January 2016
FFG-58	Samuel B. Roberts	1986	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 22 May 2015 (planned dismantlement)
FFG-59	Kauffman	1987	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 18 September 2015
FFG-60	Rodney M. Davis	1987	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 23 January 2015
FFG-61	Ingraham	1989	Oliver Hazard Perry class	Decommissioned: 12 November 2014. Scrapped, dismantling

Constellation-class FFG

The Constellation class is planned to be 20 ships with 1 on order as of 2020


#	Name	Commissioned	Class	Status
FFG-62	Constellation	planned for 2026	Constellation	On order
FFG-63	Congress	tba	Constellation	On order
FFG-64	Chesapeake	tba	Constellation	On order
FFG-65	Lafayette	tba	Constellation	On order

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References

↑ Faram, Mark (22 August 2017). "Crews past and present bid farewell to frigate Kauffman". Navy Times. Retrieved 26 March 2021.

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[1] Faram, Mark (22 August 2017). "Crews past and present bid farewell to frigate Kauffman". Navy Times. Retrieved 26 March 2021.

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