Brooke class Guided Missile Destroyer
Escort / Guided Missile Frigate / DEG, FFG – US Navy
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US Navy – Ships / FFG
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DEG 1 / FFG 1 > Brooke – Class |
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all Brooke-class
DEG's (Guided Missile Destroyer Escorts) were reclassified to FFG's in 1975 |
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Brooke – class Guided Missile
Destroyer Escort (DEG) / Guided Missile Frigate (FFG) |
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Specifications:
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Displacement |
2643 tons
(standard) 3425 tons (full) |
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Length |
126,30 meters
(over all); 118,90 meters (waterline); |
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Beam |
13,50 meters |
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Draft |
7,90 meters |
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Max Speed |
27 knots |
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Propulsion |
2 Foster-Wheeler boilers (1200 psi); 1
Westinghouse/GE steam turbine; 35000 shp; 1 shaft; 1 propeller; |
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Aircraft |
1 SH-2F "Seasprite" (LAMPS 1) |
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Armament |
1 Mk.22
missile launcher (16 RIM-24 Tartar-SAM, later RIM-66 Standard SM-1MR missiles); 1 Mk.30 5"/127mm DP-gun; 1 Mk.112 8-tube ASROC missile launcher (for
RUR-5A ASROC – Anti-Submarine Rocket); 2 Mk.32
triple-Torpedo Tubes (for Mk.46 Torpedoes); |
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Systems |
Radar: AN/SPS-10F Surface Search AN/SPS-52 A/D 3-d Air Search Sonar: AN/SQS-26AXR bow mounted Sonar Fire Control: Mk.4 Weapon Direction System Mk.56 Gun Fire
Control System with Mk.35 Radar Mk.74 Missile Fire
Control Sys. Mk.114 ASW Fire Control Sys. AN/SPG-51C Radar |
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Complement |
approx. 240 |
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Ships
of the Brooke (FFG 1) class: |
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FFG 1 USS
Brooke (1967) |
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FFG 2 USS
Ramsey (1967) |
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FFG 3 USS
Schofield (1968) |
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FFG 4 USS
Talbot (1967) |
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FFG 5 USS
Richard L. Page (1967) |
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FFG 6 USS
Julius A. Furer (1967) |
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