>From the “Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships,” 

(1968) Vol. 3, p.110.





GLOVER



AGDE-1

Displacement:  3,426 tons 

Length:  414’6”

Beam:  44’1”

Draft:  24’2”

Speed:  27.5 k.

Complement:  239

Armament:  1 5”; 4 21” torpedo tubes; 

	2 Tartar missile launchers

Class:  GLOVER



	GLOVER (AGDE-1) was laid down 29 July 1963 by Bath Iron 

Works, Bath, Maine; launched 17 April 1965; sponsored by 

Mrs. William S. Pederson, Sr., and Mrs. Claude V. Signor, 

great-great-great-granddaughters of General Glover; and 

commissioned at Boston 13 November 1965, Comdr. William W. 

Wilson in command.



	Fitted out with advanced sonar and antisubmarine 

weapons, GLOVER is designed to serve as an experimental 

research escort for developing and testing the latest 

antisubmarine weapons systems.  As a research ship, she will 

test equipment designed to more readily detect and track 

enemy submarines, and she will evaluate tactics and 

procedures which may be used by future classes of escorts.  

Capable of participating in offensive operations against 

submarines, she will provide valuable support for 

hunter-killer groups, amphibious forces, and ocean convoys.



	GLOVER joined the U.S. Atlantic Fleet in 1966 as a unit 

of Cruiser-Destroyer Forces and operated along the Atlantic 

Coast and in the Caribbean.  September, she entered Boston 

Naval Shipyard for modifications.



	[Originally planned as Environmental Research Ship 

AGER-158 under fiscal year 1960, she was cancelled on 16 

December 1959 and reintroduced as AGER-163 in the fiscal 

year 1961 program.  She was soon redesignated Escort 

Research Ship AGDE-1 and again to Frigate Research Ship 

AGFF-1 on 30 June 1975.  She was essentially a DE-1040 

(GARCIA) class ship with a shrouded propeller and a raised 

stern to accommodate experimental sonar equipment.  In 1979, 

she was reassigned to regular frigate duty and, on 1 October 

of that year, was given the hull number of a cancelled 

KNOX-class ship, FF-1098.  On 15 June 1990, she was 

reclassified back to AGFF-1 and transferred to the Military 

Sealift Command as a sonar trials ship without armament.  

GLOVER was deactivated on 28 August 1992 and stricken from 

the Navy Register on 20 November of that year.  Sold on 15 

April 1994 to N. R. Acquisition Inc., New York City, for 

$80,743.79, the ship was scrapped by a subcontractor in 

Wilmington, North Carolina beginning on 8 November 1995.



K. Jack Bauer and Stephen S. Roberts, “Register of Ships of 

the U. S. Navy, 1775-1990,” p.244.

“Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World, 1995,” 

p.938.

Naval Institute “Proceedings,” May 1995, p.221. 

Internet Site:  United States Naval & Shipbuilding Museum

	www.uss-salem.org/worldnav/usa/decom.htm





Transcribed by Michael Hansen

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