USS ''Underwood'' (FFG-36) was the twenty-seventh ship of the of guided-missile frigates, named for Captain Gordon Waite Underwood (1910–1978). Ordered from

Bath Iron Works Bath Iron Works (BIW) is a major United States shipyard located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine, founded in 1884 as Bath Iron Works, Limited. Since 1995, Bath Iron Works has been a subsidiary of General Dynamics. It is the fifth-largest ...

Bath, Maine Bath is a city in Sagadahoc County, Maine, in the United States. The population was 8,766 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Sagadahoc County, which includes one city and 10 towns. The city is popular with tourists, many drawn by its ...

, on 27 April 1979 as part of the FY79 program, ''Underwood'' was laid down on 30 July 1981, launched on 6 February 1982, and commissioned on 29 January 1983. She was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 14 and homeported at Mayport, FL. On 13 January 2010, ''Underwood'' was ordered to assist in the humanitarian relief efforts following the

2010 Haiti earthquake A catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The epicenter was near the town of Léogâne, Ouest department, approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's c ...

. ''Underwood'' was extensively used to counteract drug trafficking in Latin America with the assistance of the

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. ''Underwood'' was decommissioned on 8 March 2013.11 Ships to be decommissioned in fiscal 2013
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Official website
1982 ships Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates of the United States Navy Ships built in Bath, Maine {{US-mil-ship-stub