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Guided Missile Frigate
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FFG 1
- USS Brooke
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Type,
Class:
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Guided Missile Destroyer Escort; Guided Missile Frigate;
Brooke - class
planned and built
as DEG 1; reclassified to FFG 1
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Builder:
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Lockheed
Shipbuilding & Construction, Seattle, Washington, USA
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STATUS:
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Awarded:
January 4,
1962
Laid
down: December 19, 1962
(as DEG 1)
Launched: July 19, 1963 (as DEG 1)
Commissioned: March 12, 1966 (as DEG 1)
Reclassified to
FFG 1: June 30, 1975
Decommissioned:
September 16,
1988
Fate: leased to Pakistan on February 8,
1989; renamed PNS Khaibar
(D-162)
returned
to US Navy on December 14, 1993; sold for scrap on March 29, 1994.
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Homeport:
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-
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Namesake:
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Named
after and in honor of Commander John Mercer Brooke (1826 - 1906)
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see history, below;
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Ship's
Motto:
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PRIMA ET
OPTIMA 'first
and finest'
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Technical Data:
(Measures, Propulsion,
Armament, Aviation, etc.)
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see: INFO >
Brooke - class Guided Missile Frigate
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ship
images
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John Mercer Brooke
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Namesake & History:
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John
Mercer Brooke (December 18, 1826 – December 14, 1906):
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John Mercer Brooke
was born at Tampa Bay, Florida, on 18 December 1826, the son of an Army
officer. He became a U.S. Navy Midshipman in 1841, graduated from the U.S.
Naval Academy in 1847 and achieved the rank of Lieutenant in 1855. His Navy
career was marked by sea duty and scientific assignments. While stationed at
the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., during the early 1850s, he
developed a device for accurately mapping the deep sea floor. He also took
part in surveying and exploring expeditions in the Pacific during the middle
and later parts of the decade and helped instruct officers of the fledgling
Japanese Navy.
As the secession crisis deepened, Brooke resigned his commission in April
1861 and "went south", joining the Confederate Navy soon after as a
Lieutenant. He was deeply involved in the conversion of the burned steam
frigate Merrimack into the ironclad CSS Virginia and in the design and
production of heavy rifled guns for the Southern war effort. Promoted to
Commander in September 1862, he became Chief of the Confederate Navy's Bureau
of Ordnance and Hydrography in March 1863 and served in that post until the
Civil War ended more than two years later.
After the war, Brooke became a professor at the Virginia Military Institute,
at Lexington, Va., while continuing his technological pursuits. After a long
career of teaching, he retired in 1899 and made his home in Lexington until
his death on 14 December 1906.
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USS
Brooke (DEG/FFG 1):
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FFG 1 history wanted
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patches
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