USS Reid FFG 30 / Master Samuel Chester Reid / Oliver Hazard Perry class Guided Missile Frigate
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Guided Missile Frigate

FFG 30   -   USS Reid

USS Reid (FFG 30)

US Navy photo

Type, Class:

 

Guided Missile Frigate; Oliver Hazard Perry – class (short hull);

planned and built as FFG 30;

Builder:

 

Todd Pacific Shipyard, San Pedro, California, USA

STATUS:

 

Awarded: January 23, 1978;

Laid down: October 8, 1980;

Launched: June 27, 1981;

Commissioned: February 19, 1983;

Decommissioned: September 25, 1998;

 

Fate: stricken September 25, 1998;

transferred to Turkey (sold) on January 5, 1999;

renamed TCG Gelibolu (F-493); in service in Turkish Navy;

Homeport:

 

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Namesake:

 

Named after and in honor of Samuel Chester Reid (1783 – 1861):

> see history, below;

Ship's Motto:

 

> PRIDE - DISTINCTION - HONOR <

Technical Data:

(Measures, Propulsion,

Armament, Aviation, etc.)

 

see: INFO > Guided Missile Frigate / Oliver Hazard Perry - class.

 

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Samuel Chester Reid

 

 

Photo credits: US Navy, US Naval Historical Center

 

Namesake & History:

Sailing Master Samuel Chester Reid, US Navy (August 25, 1783 – January 28, 1861):

 

USS REID commemorates the name borne by three former destroyers in honor of Sailing Master Samuel Chester Reid, U.S. Navy (1783-1861), hero of the War of 1861 and designer of the United States flag in its present form. He received the thanks of the New York State Legislature for gallantry in command of the New York privateer brig GENERAL ARMSTRONG which inflicted such casualties and damage to a powerful British squadron at Fayal, Azores, that it delayed the arrival of the British invasion fleet off New Orleans sufficiently to aid General Andrew Jackson's defense preparations for victory.

His design for a national ensign to include thirteen stripes and a star for each state was adopted by Congress on 4 April 1818. Congress appointed him a Sailing Master in the U.S. Navy on 3 June 1843. As the harbor master of New York, he made notable contributions in improving the pilot-boat service and established a lightship off Sandy Hook.

 

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