Garcia-class frigate

The Garcia-class frigates were warships of the United States Navy, developed from the earlier Bronstein class as ocean-going antisubmarine escorts to replace the destroyer escorts left over from the Second World War. They were originally rated as destroyer escorts, hull classification DE, and were redesignated frigates on 30 June 1975. The ships were commissioned between 1964 and 1968 and decommissioned between 1988 and 1990. They were nearly 45 feet longer and about 250 tons heavier than the Bronstein class they followed, carried two single 5-inch/38 guns, and had hangars first designed for the DASH drone helicopter, which never reached the fleet; most were later fitted for crewed LAMPS helicopters. Bath Iron Works in Maine built one of them, USS Glover.