TCG Goksu F-497 Gabya G-class Perry Frigate Turkish Navy

Turkish Navy / Türk Deniz Kuvvetleri - Frigate
F 497 TCG Goksu
(ex USS Estocin / FFG 15)

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Type, class: Gabya / G-class Frigate (modernized ex US Oliver Hazard Perry class FFG)
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, USA

STATUS:
US Navy service:
FFG 15 USS Estocin
Awarded: February 27, 1976
Laid down: April 2, 1979
Launched: November 3, 1979
Commissioned: January 10, 1981
Decommissioned: April 3, 2003

Turkish Navy service:
transferred to Turkey in 2003
renamed F 497 TCG Goksu
Commissioned: 2003
IN SERVICE

Homeport: ?
Namesake: Göksu River
Technical Data: see INFO > Gabya / G-class Frigate

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FFG 15 USS Estocin

TCG Goksu (F 497):

... service history wanted

Göksu

... (Turkish for "water of skies" also called Geuk Su, Goksu Nehri) is a river on the Taşeli plateau (Turkey). Both its sources arise in the Taurus Mountains - the northern in the Geyik Mountains and the southern in the Haydar Mountains. Their confluence is south of Mut.

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