![]() USS Glover underway in 1982.
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Name | USS Glover |
Namesake | John Glover |
Awarded | 28 June 1961 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 29 July 1963 |
Launched | 17 April 1965 |
Commissioned | 13 November 1965 |
Decommissioned | 15 June 1990 Ship transferred to Military Sealift Command as a research vessel |
Stricken | 20 November 1992 |
Identification | FF-1098 |
Fate | Sold for scrap 15 April 1994 |
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General characteristics as (AGDE-1) | |
Class and type | Garcia-class frigate |
Displacement | 3,426 tons |
Length | 414 ft 6 in (126.34 m) |
Beam | 44 ft 1 in (13.44 m) |
Draft | 24 ft 2 in (7.37 m) |
Speed | 27.5 knots (50.9 km/h; 31.6 mph) |
Complement | 239+12 FAST Company Marines for security detail |
Sensors and processing systems | Sonar AN/SQS-26AXR, AN/SQS-35 IVDS. Test platform for LFAS and RMASS Sonars |
Armament |
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USS Glover (FF-1098) was a Garcia-class frigate originally modified for research use and commissioned as (AGDE-1) on 3 November 1965. Glover was laid down 29 July 1963 by the Bath Iron Works, in Bath, Maine and launched on 17 April 1965 with sponsors Mrs. William S. Pederson, Sr., and Mrs. Claude V. Signer, great-great-great-granddaughters of General John Glover.
Fitted out with advanced sonar and antisubmarine weapons, Glover was designed to serve as an experimental research escort for developing and testing the latest antisubmarine weapons systems. A pump-jet propulsion reduces underwater noise and gyroscopically controlled fin stabilizers reduce ocean rolling.[1] As a research ship, she tested equipment designed to more readily detect and track enemy submarines, and evaluated tactics and procedures which were used on future classes of escorts. Capable of participating in offensive operations against submarines, she provided support for hunter killer groups, amphibious forces, and ocean convoys.