Brooke-class frigate

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USS Brooke (FFG-1) underway off San Clemente Island on 17 January 1988 (6640000).jpg
USS Brooke (FFG-1)
Class overview
NameBrooke class
Builders Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, Washington, U.S. Bath Iron Works
Operators
Preceded by Garcia class
Succeeded by
Built1962–1968
In commission1966–1989
Planned19
Completed6
Retired6
General characteristics
Type Guided missile frigate
Displacement
  • 2,640 tons std
  • 3,426 tons full
Length
  • 390 ft (118.87 m) (pp)
  • 415 ft 1.5 in (126.53 m) (oa)
Beam44 ft 2.875 in (13.48 m)
Draft
  • 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) (keel, full load)
  • 24 ft 5.75 in (7.46 m) (sonar, full load)
Propulsion2 Foster Wheeler boilers, 1 GE (1-3) or Westinghouse (4-6) geared turbine, 35,000 shp (26 MW), 1 screw
Speed27.2 knots (50.4 km/h; 31.3 mph)
Range4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km; 4,600 mi)
Complement14 officers, 214 crew
Sensors and
processing systems
Electronic warfare
& decoys
AN/SLQ-32
Armament
Aircraft carried1 SH-2 Seasprite

The Brooke class was a United States Navy frigate class based on the design of the Garcia class, but with the addition of the Tartar Guided Missile System. The first unit was commissioned in 1966 and the final sixth unit was decommissioned in 1989.

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Description

Brooke-class ships were nearly identical to the Garcia class, except the second 5-inch/38 caliber gun was replaced with a Mk.22 single arm missile launcher and the requisite Mk.74 Guided Missile Fire Control System to control it. Air search capabilities were provided by the AN/SPS-52 3D air search radar, which displaced the two dimension AN/SPS-40 carried on the Garcia class.

FFG-1 through FFG-3 had a Westinghouse geared steam turbine while FFG-4 through FFG-6 employed a General Electric turbine. All ships had two Foster Wheeler boilers. FFG-4 through FFG-6 had an angled base of the bridge structure behind the ASROC launcher for automatic reloading, displacing the loading crane carried on previous ships.

The Brooke class originally carried the DASH drone, but were later equipped with LAMPS SH-2 Seasprite after the hangar was enlarged. [2]

Oliver Hazard Perry class systems were evaluated on Talbot including the 76 mm Mk.75 gun, the AN/SQS-56 sonar and other systems. [2] [3]

Initially classified as guided missile destroyer escorts (DEG), the class were redesignated as guided missile frigates (FFG) under the United States Navy 1975 ship reclassification. FFG-1 through FFG-3 were authorized in FY1962 while FFG-4 through FFG-6 were authorized in FY1963. Plans called for ten more ships to be authorized in FY1964 and possibly three more in later years, but those plans were dropped because of the $11 million higher cost of the DEG over a DE.

Ships in class

Ship nameHull no.CrestBuilderCommission–
decommission
FateLink
Brooke FFG-1 FFG-1 COA.png Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle1966–1988Transferred to Pakistan in 1989; disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 28 March 1994
Ramsey FFG-21967–1988Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, 15 June 2000
Schofield FFG-31968–1988Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, 11/02/1999
Talbot FFG-4 FFG-4 COA.png Bath Iron Works 1967–1988Transferred to Pakistan in 1989; disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 28 March 1994
Richard L. Page FFG-51967–1988Transferred to Pakistan in 1989; disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 28 March 1994
Julius A. Furer FFG-61967–1989Transferred to Pakistan in 1989; disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 28 March 1994

Notes

  1. Polmar, Norman (July 1981). "The U.S. Navy: Sonars, Part 1". United States Naval Institute Proceedings: 119.
  2. 1 2 Moore, John (1991). Janes American Fighting Ships of the 20th Century. Mallard Press. p. 185. ISBN   0-7924-5626-2.
  3. Pike, John. "FFG-1 Brooke". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 4 June 2015.