Brooke class frigate

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Class overview
USS Brooke (FFG-1)
Builders:	Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, WA Bath Iron Works
Operators:	US Navy
Preceded by:	Garcia class frigate
Succeeded by:	Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate
Built:	1962-1968
In commission:	1966-1989
Planned:	19
Completed:	6
Retired:	6
General characteristics
Type:	Guided missile frigate
Displacement:	2,640 tons std 3,426 tons full
Length:	414 ft (126 m)
Beam:	44 ft (13 m)
Draft:	14 ft 6 in (4.4 m) (keel) 24 ft (7.3 m) (sonar)
Propulsion:	2 Foster-Wheeler boilers, 1 GE (1-3) or Westinghouse (4-6) geared turbine, 35,000 shp, 1 screw
Speed:	27.2 knots
Range:	4,000 nautical miles
Complement:	14 officers, 214 crew
Sensors and processing systems:	AN/SPS-52 3D air search radar AN/SPS-10 surface search radar AN/SPG-51 missile fire control radar AN/SQS-26 bow mounted sonar
Electronic warfare and decoys:	AN/SLQ-32
Armament:	1x5"/38 caliber gun 1x Mk 22 RIM-24 Tartar/RIM-66 Standard missile launcher (16 missiles) 1x8 cell ASROC launcher 2x3 12.75 in (324mm) Mk 32 torpedo tubes, Mk 46 torpedoes 2 x MK 37 torpedo tubes (fixed, stern, removed later)
Aircraft carried:	1 SH-2 Seasprite

The Brooke class was a United States Navy frigate class that is based on the Garcia class, but with the addition of the Tartar Guided Missile Fire Control System.

1 Description
2 Units
3 Gallery
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Description

Nearly identical to the Garcia class, except the second 5"/38 caliber gun was replaced with a Tartar missile system and electronics. Brooke class ships had the AN/SPS-52 3D air search radar instead of the two dimension AN/SPS-40 and added the AN/SPG-51 for target tracking and missile guidance. The Mk 22, single arm, 16 missile launcher was placed midships. Initially authorized as guided missile destroyer escorts (DEG), 1-6 were authorized in FY1962 while 4-6 were in FY1963. Plans called for 10 more 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 an FF. The Brooke class was originally designed to carry the DASH drone, but were later equipped with LAMPS SH-2 Seasprite after the hanger was enlarged.^[1]

1-3 had a Westinghouse geared steam turbine while 4-6 employed General Electric. All ships had two Foster-Wheeler boilers. FFG 4-6 had an angled base of the bridge structure behind the ASROC launched for automatic reloading. Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate systems were evaluated on USS Talbot (FFG-4) including the Otobreda 76 mm gun, the AN/SQS-56 sonar and other systems.^[1]^[2]

[edit] Units

Ship Name	Hull No.	Builder	Commission– Decommission	Fate	Link
Brooke	FFG-1	Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle	1966-1988	Disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 03/28/1994	[1]
Ramsey	FFG-2	Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle	1967-1988	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, 06/15/2000	[2]
Schofield	FFG-3	Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle	1968-1988	Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, 11/02/1999	[3]
Talbot	FFG-4	Bath Iron Works	1967-1988	Disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 03/28/1994	[4]
Richard L. Page	FFG-5	Bath Iron Works	1967-1988	Disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 03/28/1994	[5]
Julius A. Furer	FFG-6	Bath Iron Works	1967-1989	Disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 03/28/1994	[6]

[edit] Gallery

Talbot with angled bridge structure for automated ASROC loading.

Ramsey's SPS-52, black panel at center and AN/SPG-51, dish at right.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Moore, John. Janes American Fighting Ships of the 20th Century. p185. Mallard Press, 1991. ISBN 0-7924-5626-2.
^ GlobalSecurity.org Brooke class.