Warship Photos
Frigates
USA
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"Glover" Class
(This is a "one of" , - built for test purposes -, but otherwise very similar to the "Garcia" Class Frigates.)
Commissioned: 1
unit, - 1965
Displacement, tons: 2643 standard,
- 3426 full load
Dimensions, metres: 126,3 x
13,5 x 4,3
Guns: 1 x 5"
A/S weapons: 1 Asroc 8-tube
launcher, - 2 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft: 1 helicopter
Propulsion: 2 boilers, - 1
geared turbine, - 35000 shp, - 1 shaft w. 2 propellers, - 27 knots
Complement: 227
USS "Glover" AGFF 1
Seen to the very left in the
picture, - photographed in Norfolk 1978
(Photography © Karsten Petersen
©)