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GLOVER destroyer escort (1965)


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Glover 1974

Ships


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


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

2643

Displacement full, t

3426

Length, m

118.9 wl 126.3 oa

Breadth, m

13.5

Draught, m

7.30

No of shafts

1 pumpjet

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

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

Complement

248



Standard scale images


<i>Glover </i>1990
Glover 1990
<i>Glover </i>1979
Glover 1979
<i>Glover </i>1968
Glover 1968


Graphics


<i>Glover </i>1974
Glover 1974


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.