Brooke-class frigate

The Brooke class was a group of six frigates built for the United States Navy on the design of the Garcia class, with the Tartar guided missile system added. Three were authorized in fiscal year 1962 and three more in 1963, and each carried a single-rail Mk22 launcher for Tartar and later Standard medium-range missiles in place of the amidships 5-inch gun of the Garcia design, while keeping a bow 5-inch gun, the ASROC antisubmarine launcher and a large bow sonar. The first ship was commissioned in 1966 and the sixth and last was decommissioned in 1989. Four were loaned to Pakistan in 1989 and returned in 1993 and 1994. Bath Iron Works in Maine built three of the six ships: Talbot, Richard L. Page and Julius A. Furer.