USS Richard L. Page (FFG-5) [SEP] vessel class
USS Richard L. Page
USS "Richard L. Page" (FFG-5) was a "Brooke" class frigate in the United States Navy.
"Richard L. Page" was laid down on 4 January 1965 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. She was launched on 4 April 1966, sponsored by Miss Edmonia Lee Whittle and Mrs. Nannie Page Trinker, granddaughters of the ship's namesake, Brigadier General Richard L. Page, and commissioned as a guided missile destroyer escort at Boston, Massachusetts on 5 August 1967 with
) "Talbot"
- (DEG-5) "Richard L. Page"
- (DEG-6) "Julius A. Furer"
- DEG-7 through 13 The ships were redesignated FFG, a patrol frigate design would be re-designated the FFG-7 Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate.
See also.
- Captain class frigate Captain class was the name the Royal Navy gave to Destroyer escorts.
- List of frigate classes
- List of frigates of the United States Navy subset of above with hull numbers DE/FF 1037