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USS BROOKS (DD-232 / APD-10)

CLASS - CLEMSON As Built.
Displacement 1,215 Tons, Dimensions, 314' 5" (oa) x 31' 8" x 9' 10" (Max)
Armament 4 x 5"/51, 1 x 3"/23AA, 12 x 21" tt..
Machinery, 26,500 SHP; Westinghouse Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 35 Knots, Crew 114
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by New York Shipbuilding on June 11 1918.
Launched April 24 1919 and commissioned June 18 1920.
Decommissioned January 20 1931, Recommissioned June 18 1932.
Decommissioned September 2 1938, Recommissioned April 25 1939.
Reclassified High Speed Transport APD-10 December 1 1942.
Heavily damaged by Kamikaze Aircraft January 6 1945.
Decommissioned August 2 1945.
Stricken September 17 1945.
Fate Sold January 30 1946 and broken up for scrap.
3 of her crew were lost and remain on duty.

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Brooks 113kAs DD-232, undated, location unknown.Curt Clark, The Four Stack APD Veterans
Brooks 146kUndated, location unknown.-
Brooks 92kUndated, location unknown.Robert Hurst
Brooks 170kUndated, passing the Brooklyn Bridge.Darryl Baker
Brooks 71kCirca 1920.Robert Hurst
Brooks 74kCirca 1940.Marc Piché
Brooks 98kNew York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, NJ. Closest ship is USS Dickerson (DD 157). Next is USS Leary (DD 158), USS Schenck (DD 159), USS Herbert (DD 160), USS Brooks (DD 232), and USS Hatfield (DD 231). The last ship is USS DeLong (DD 129).Joe Radigan

USS BROOKS DD-232 / APD-10 History
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Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

LT Donald McLean Dalton    Jun 18 1920 - Sep 1920
LCDR Theodore Gordon Ellyson    Sep 1920 - Dec 1920
CDR William Garrett Greenman    Jun 1929 - Jun 1930 (Later COMO)
CDR Henry Davis McGuire    Jun 1930 - Dec 1930
(Decommissioned Jan 20 1931 - Jun 18 1932)
LCDR William Walter Warlick    ? 1932 - ?
LCDR William Wheatly Cone    May 1937 - Sep 1938
(Decommissioned Sep 2 1938 - Apr 25 1939)
LT William Robert Lefavour    ? 1939 - ?
LCDR Elliott Bowman Strauss    1940 - ? (Later RADM)
As the APD-10
LCDR Charles T. Singleton Jr.    ? 1942 - ?
LCDR Charles Vern Allen    ? 1944 - ?

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Contact Name: Curt Clark, Secretary Four Stack APD Veterans
Address: 3384 Grim Ave., San Diego, CA 92104
Phone: 619-282-0971
E-mail: apdsec@cox.net


Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.


Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource page for the USS Brooks APD-10
Tin Can Sailors Website
Destroyer History Foundation
Destroyers Online Website
Official U.S.Navy Destroyer Website

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