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3 frigates, amphib to leave fleet in 2012


By Jill Laster - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Jul 18, 2011 16:21:54 EDT

Three frigates and an amphibious transport dock are slated for inactivation in fiscal 2012, according to a Navy message outlining when the four ships will leave the fleet.

Frigates Boone, Stephen W. Groves and John L. Hall will be sold to foreign militaries when they are decommissioned, according to the NAVADMIN released last Friday. Boone and Stephen W. Groves are slated for inactivation on Feb. 24, 2012; John L. Hall will leave the fleet soon after, on March 9.

Amphibious transport dock Ponce will be decommissioned March 30, 2012, and kept in the Navy’s out-of-commission reserve, according to the message.

Boone, Stephen W. Groves and John L. Hall were commissioned in 1982 as part of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided missile frigates. Ponce, an Austin-class amphibious transport dock, was commissioned in 1971.

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