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BRONSTEIN destroyer escorts (1963)


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Bronstein 1975

Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
DE1037, 6.1975- FF1037 Bronstein 985 Avondale, Westwego 16.5.1961 31.3.1962 16.6.1963 stricken 10.1991, to Mexico (Hermenegildo Galeana)
DE1038, 6.1975- FF1038 McCloy 986 Avondale, Westwego 15.9.1951 9.6.1962 21.10.1963 stricken 10.1991, to Mexico (Nicolás Bravo)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1882

Displacement full, t

2723

Length, m

106.7 wl 113.4 oa

Breadth, m

12.5

Draught, m

7.00

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 set De Laval geared steam turbines, 2 Foster Wheeler boilers

Power, h. p.

20000

Max speed, kts

26

Fuel, t

oil 480

Endurance, nm(kts)4000(15)
Armament

1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (8 RUR-5), 1 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 34, 2 - 533 Mk 24 TT, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (14), 1 QH-50 DASH drone ASW helicopter, hangar and helicopter deck

Electronic equipment

SPS-10F, SPS-40D, Mk 35 radars, SQS-26AXR sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites

Complement

191



Standard scale images


<i>Bronstein </i>1990
Bronstein 1990
<i>Bronstein </i>1979
Bronstein 1979
<i>McCloy </i>1970
McCloy 1970


Graphics


<i>Bronstein</i> 1975
Bronstein 1975


Project history

These ships, the progenitors of a long line of large US ASW escorts, were conceived as a reaction to the Claud Jones class, in effect a Dealy with the new SQS-26 sonar, ASROC and DASH, with one of the original four 76mm/50 guns traded off for greater ASW effectiveness. One of the penalties was a loss of speed, so that the new escort was slower than the ASW Task Force with which she was to operate; the desire to regain speed (compared to the Dealey or even as compared to a 30kt submarine) led to the next series of ships.

Modernizations

mid-1970s, both: - 1 x 1 - 76/50

early 1980s, McCloy: + SQR-15 sonar

Naval service

No significant events.