USS Lewis B. Puller (FFG-23)

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Career (US)	Image:US Naval Jack.svg <tr valign=top><td>Ordered:</td><td>28 February 1977</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Builder:</td><td>Todd Pacific Shipyards Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California</td></tr>
Image:USS Lewis B Puller FFG-23.jpg USS Lewis B. Puller (FFG-23)
Laid down:	23 May 1979
Launched:	15 March 1980 <tr valign=top><td>Acquired:</td><td>1 March 1982</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Commissioned:</td><td>17 April 1982</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Decommissioned:</td><td>18 September 1998</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Struck:</td><td>18 September 1998</td></tr>
Status:	Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP) <tr valign=top><td>Homeport:</td><td>NS San Diego, California (former)</td></tr>
General Characteristics
Displacement:	4,100 tons (4,170 t) full load
Length:	453 ft (138.1 m), overall
Beam:	45 ft (13.7 m) <tr valign=top><td>Draught:</td><td>22 ft (6.7 m)</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Propulsion:</td><td>2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and variable pitch propeller</td></tr>
Speed:	29+ knots (54+ km/h) <tr valign=top><td>Range:</td><td>5,000 nm (9,300 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)</td></tr>
Complement:	15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers <tr valign=top><td>Sensors and processing systems:</td><td>AN/SPS-49 air-search radar</br>AN/SPS-55 surface-search radar</br>CAS and STIR fire-control radar</br>AN/SQS-56 sonar.</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Electronic warfare and decoys:</td><td>AN/SLQ-32</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Armament:</td><td>One OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun</br>one Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine)</br>two Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes</br>one Vulcan Phalanx CIWS; four .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns.</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Aircraft carried:</td><td>2 × SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters</td></tr>

USS Lewis B. Puller (FFG-23), fifteenth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Marine Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller (1898–1971). Ordered from Todd Shipyards, San Pedro, CA on 28 February 1977 as part of the FY77 program, Lewis B. Puller was laid down on 23 May 1979, launched on 15 March 1980, and commissioned on 17 April 1982. Decommissioned and stricken on 18 September 1998, she was transferred to Egypt the same day as that nation's Toushka (F 906).