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ESCORTS

BROOKE missile destroyer escorts (1966 - 1968)

Brooke 1969

Brooke 1979

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
DEG1, 6.1975- FFG1 Brooke 115 Lockheed, Seattle 19.12.1962 19.7.1963 12.3.1966 to Pakistan 2.1989 (خیبر [Khaibar])
DEG2, 6.1975- FFG2 Ramsey 116 Lockheed, Seattle 4.2.1963 15.10.1963 3.6.1967 stricken 1.1992
DEG3, 6.1975- FFG3 Schofield 117 Lockheed, Seattle 15.4.1963 7.12.1963 11.5.1968 stricken 1.1992
DEG4, 6.1975- FFG4 Talbot 348 Bath Iron Wks 4.5.1964 6.1.1966 22.4.1967 to Pakistan 4.1989 (حنین [Hunain])
DEG5, 6.1975- FFG5 Richard L. Page 349 Bath Iron Wks 4.1.1965 4.4.1966 5.8.1967 to Pakistan 3.1989 (تابوک [Tabuk])
DEG6, 6.1975- FFG6 Julius A. Furer 350 Bath Iron Wks 12.7.1965 22.7.1966 11.11.1967 to Pakistan 1.1989 (بدر [Badr])

 

Displacement standard, t

2710

Displacement full, t

3426

Length, m

118.9 wl 126.2 oa

Breadth, m

13.4

Draught, m

7.30

No of shafts

1

Machinery

DEG1-3: 1 set Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 2 Foster Wheeler pressure-fired boilers

DEG4-6: 1 set General Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Foster Wheeler pressure-fired boilers

Power, h. p.

35000

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 4000(20)

Armament

DEG1-3: 1 x 1 Tartar SAM (16 RIM-24), 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (8 RUR-5), 1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (18), 1 QH-50 DASH drone ASW helicopter, hangar and helicopter deck

DEG4-6: 1 x 1 Tartar SAM (16 RIM-24), 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (16 RUR-5), 1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (18), 1 QH-50 DASH drone ASW helicopter, hangar and helicopter deck

Electronic equipment

DEG1-5: LN-66, SPS-10F, SPS-52B, SPG-51C, Mk 35 radars, SQS-26BX sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites, 2x Mk 33 RBOC decoy RL

DEG6: LN-66, SPS-10F, SPS-52B, SPG-51C, Mk 35 radars, SQS-26AXR sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites, 2x Mk 33 RBOC decoy RL

Complement

228

   

Project history: By 1959 there was interest in a 30kt successor to the Bronsteins; at the same time a new lightweight steam technology, the pressure-fired boiler, was maturing. At first BuShips proposed a conventionally powered 27kt destroyer escort for the FY61 programme, together with an experimental (and faster) pressure-fired ship. This gradually shifted to a requirement that at least one FY6I ship be pressure-fired (27kts), and ultimately to a choice to build an entire series of pressure-fired escorts, even before any one of the new power plants had gone to sea. Other demands at this time were for a replacement for existing Second World War destroyers: given its relatively high speed and good sonar, the pressure-fired escort was a natural candidate; it was therefore given 127mm guns in place of the 76mm/50 of earlier escorts. There were also calls from the Fleet for a missile battery, and the new ship was designed to accept a minimum Tartar battery in place of its after 127mm gun. The result was actually capable of about 30kts on trials, and certainly exceeded mass production limits.

    Ten ASW versions (Garcia class) and six missile versions (Brooke class) were built, as well as a modified research unit, Glover (AGDE1), with a pumpjet propeller, a raised platform above the main deck aft, and no after 127mm gun or missile launcher. Production of the missile ships ended with the FY63 programme in view of their high cost and limited capability.

    From DE1047 onwards, these ships were fitted with the sloping bulkhead and ASROC reload magazine developed for the Knox class. Only DE1041 actually operated with DASH.

Modernizations: 1972-1975, all: - QH-50 DASH drone ASW helicopter; + 1 SH-2D Sea Sprite ASW helicopter (LAMPS), hangar and helicopter deck were enlarged

early 1980s, all: - WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites, 2x Mk 33 RBOC decoy RL; + SLQ-32(v)2 ECM suite, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL

 

Naval service: No significant events.

Brooke 1979

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