USS Aubrey Fitch (FFG-34)

USS Aubrey Fitch (FFG-34)

The USS Aubrey Fitch (FFG-34), the twenty-sixth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Vice-Admiral Aubrey Fitch (1883–1978), who was noted for his outstanding command work in the South Pacific during World War II.

Ordered on 23 January 1978, as a part of the FY-1978 program, the Aubrey Fitch was laid down on 10 April 1981 at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. She was launched on 17 October 1981—sponsored by Mrs. Francesca Fitch Ferguson, the granddaughter of the late Admiral Fitch—and she was commissioned at Bath, Maine, on 9 October 1982, with Commander Floyd A. Weeks in command.

This warship was decommissioned on 12 December 1997 and stricken from the Navy's lost on 3 May 1999.