US NAVY - USS OLIVER HAZARD PERRY (FFG-7) Challenge Coin for Sale

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US NAVY - USS OLIVER HAZARD PERRY (FFG-7) Challenge Coin For Sale

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US NAVY - USS OLIVER HAZARD PERRY (FFG-7) Challenge Coin :
$14.99

This is a great looking US NAVY -USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) commemorative challenge coin. It has a great looking enamel finish photo on the front and a Navy emblem on the reverse side. Coin has reeded edges and is about 1 9/16\" in diameter. Front side of coin is printed and colorized while the rear side is raised lettering and gold plated. Coin is contained in acrylic air tight holder.

USS Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7), lead ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval hero, who was victorious at the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG-7) was the first ship and, as of 2015, the only ship of that name in the U S Navy. Oliver Hazard Perry was in service from 1977 to 1997 and was scrapped in 2005.

The class was originally intended as austere \'low\' category guided missile frigates (compared with the high capability Spruance class for General Purpose and Anti-Air convoy escort. They were built under a cloud of controversy, with their very light gun armament and lack of redundancy and duplicated systems in event of ship being hit. They were regarded by the Reagan administration and Secretary John Lehman as not part of the 500 ship navy plan, but ultimately proved useful as anti-submarine ships if fitted to carry Seahawks and towed arrays and in the 21C as low grade patrol ships making up the numbers in a USN desperately short of escorts.

After 19.2 years of active service, Hazard Perry was decommissioned on 20 February 1997, in Mayport, FL under the last Commanding Officer, CDR Robert F. Holman, USNR. Though she was stricken on 3 May 1999, Oliver Hazard Perry was held in the museum donation category at the former Navy shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A group had hoped to bring her to Toledo, Ohio and display her as a museum ship and a remembrance for the Battle of Lake Erie. The group could not get a financial plan together in time, and soPerrywas sold for scrap in December 2005.

Name: Oliver Hazard Perry

Namesake:Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
Ordered:10 March 1973Builder:Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Laid down:12 June 1975Launched:25 September 1976Commissioned:17 December 1977Decommissioned:20 February 1997Struck:3 May 1999Homeport:NS, Mayport, Florida (former)Identification:

FFG-7

Motto:\"Don\'t Give Up the Ship\"Nickname(s):Gallant Leader, Old Hockey PuckFate:9 September 2005, contract for scrappingStatus:21 April 2006, scrapping completed

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