Glover 1968
Glover 1979
Glover 1990
| No | Name | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| AGDE1, 6.1975- AGFF1, 10.1979- FF1098, 6.1990- T-AGFF1 | Glover | 345 | Bath Iron Wks | 29.7.1963 | 17.4.1965 | 13.11.1965 | stricken 11.1992 |
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Displacement standard, t |
2643 |
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Displacement full, t |
3426 |
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Length, m |
118.9 wl 126.3 oa |
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Breadth, m |
13.5 |
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Draught, m |
7.30 |
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No of shafts |
1 pumpjet |
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Machinery |
1 set Westinghouse 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 |
1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (8 RUR-5), 1 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (14), 1 QH-50 DASH drone ASW helicopter, hangar and helicopter deck |
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Electronic equipment |
SPS-10, SPS-40, Mk 35 radars, SQS-26AXR, SQS-35, SQR-13 sonars, WLR-1, ULQ-6 ECM suites, 2x Mk 33 RBOC decoy RL |
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Complement |
248 |
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: - QH-50 DASH drone ASW helicopter; + helicopter deck and hangar for small helicopter
Naval service: In 1990 Glover was transferred to Military Sealift Command.
Glover 1974
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