USS Doyle (FFG 39)

USS DOYLE is the 30^th guided missile frigate in the OLIVER HAZARD PERRY class. As part of the Western Hemisphere Group she is homeported in Mayport. Fla.

General Characteristics:	Keel Laid: October 23, 1981
	Launched: May 22, 1982
	Commissioned: May 21, 1983
	Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
	Propulsion system: two General Electric LM 2500 gas turbines, two 350 Horsepower Electric Drive Auxiliary Propulsion Units
	Propellers: one
	Blades on each Propeller: five
	Length: 453 feet (138 meters)
	Beam: 47 feet (14.32 meters)
	Draft: 24,6 feet (7.5 meters)
	Displacement: 4,100 tons
	Speed: 28+ knots
	Aircraft: two SH-60 Sea Hawk (LAMPS 3)
	Armament: one Mk 75 76mm/62 caliber rapid firing gun, MK 32 ASW torpedo tubes (two triple mounts), one Phalanx CIWS
	Homeport: Mayport, Fla.
	Crew: 17 Officers and 198 Enlisted

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Crew List:

This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS DOYLE. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.

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This picture was taken by Howard Walsh jr. in Port Everglades, Fla., during the Broward Navy Days in 2000.

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History of USS DOYLE:

DOYLE has completed four Mediterranean Deployments, two Persian Gulf deployments, and a Standing Naval Forces Atlantic cruise. She has participated in the "Drug War" through Counter-Drug Operations (CDOPS) in the Caribbean Sea, and escorted USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72) around South America. During the circumnavigation, DOYLE set a new speed record for the class by traveling over 16,000 miles in just 1000 hours underway. DOYLE returned from the Persian Gulf late in 1996, DOYLE conducted an unprecedented 72 queries and 39 boardings in support of the UN embargo against Iraq. Their efforts resulted in the confiscation of more than $3 million of contraband. Additionally, DOYLE participated in Operation Desert Strike, the only Mayport unit to be involved.

DOYLE also participated in Fleet Week '98 and will return to Fleet Week '99. DOYLE completed UNITAS in November of 1998.

UNITAS is U.S. Navy’s longest-running annual deployment; the word UNITAS is Latin for "unity". This operation promotes a cooperative maritime strategy in the region while supporting the U.S. policy of continued engagement in South America through forward presence. UNITAS 39-98 was conducted with nine South American Navies over a four-month period. The U.S. Task force 138 made up of USS DOYLE (FFG 39), USS MOOSBRUGGER (DD 980), USS LA MOURE COUNTY (LST 1194), USS BOSTON (SSN 703), and USCGC MOHAWK, circumnavigated South America in a clockwise direction.

On January 19, 2000, USS DOYLE and embarked HSL-47 Det. 6 departed Mayport, Fla. en route to a multi-purpose deployment in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean. During this deployment the frigate intercepted a vessel named REBELDE off the coast of Ecuador while conducting routine counter drug operations. After detaining and searching the suspicious vessel, DOYLE's embarked U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) discovered six tons of cocaine. REBELDE was taken under tow and delivered to St. Petersburg, Fla.