USS GLOVER FACT SHEET

 

Description:           modified GARCIA (FF-1040)-class

                       Fast Frigate 



Built by:              Bath Iron Works; Bath, Maine 

                       (construction began in 1963).

Commissioned:          April 17, 1965.



Length:                414 feet. 



Beam:                  44 feet.



Displacement:          3635 tons (full load)

 

Draft:                 26 feet. 



Power Plant:           Two, 1200 psi, 950 degrees F, 

                       pressure-fired boilers



Shaft horsepower:      35,000 



Shafts:                One



Maximum speed:         27 knots.



Air search radar:      AN/SPS-40

 

Surface search radar:  AN/SPS-10

 

Sonar:                 AN/SQS-26 AX (R)

 

Variable depth sonar:  AN/SQS-35V



Armament:              ASROC (from one MK-16 launcher);

                       Six MK-46 torpedoes (from two 

                       triple-mount MK-32 tubes, 

                       one on each side of ship); 

                       One 5inch/38 caliber MK-30 gun



Fire control:          GFCS MK-56 and ASW FCS MK-114



Complement:            21 officers and 235 enlisted men 



Decommissioned:        January 1, 1993