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DEG-1 / FFG-1 USS BROOKE
CLASS - BROOKE As Built
Displacement: 2643 tons (std), 3426 tons (full) Dimensions: 414'(oa) 390'(wl) x 44' x 14' 6"; 24' (sonar)
Armament: 1 - 5"/38 Mk 56, 1 Mk112 ASROC octuple launcher (16 RUR-5A missiles), 1 Tartar single
Mk 22 launcher (16 missiles), 6-324mm Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes for Mk 46 torpedos
Machinery: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 Westinghouse geared turbine; 35,000shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27.2 Knots Range: 4000 nm @20 Knots Crew: 14 / 214
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Lockheed SB & Construction, Seattle WA on 19 December 1962
Launched 19 July 1963, Commissioned 12 March 1966
Reclassified Frigate (FFG-1) on 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 16 September 1988, Stricken 2 January 1994
Fate: To Pakistan 1 February 1989, renamed Khaibar
Returned USN 14 November 1993 at Singapore
Sold for scrapping 29 March 1994
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Nearly identical to the Garcia class frigates, except for the replacement of the aft 5"/38 gun with a Mk 22 missile launcher and radar improvements. |
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Additional Ship's Memoribilia
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 Additional Ship's Patch Courtesy of Mike Smolinski |
 Ship's Mug Courtesy of Mike Smolinski |
View the Brooke (DEG-1)
DANFS history entry (not presently available) located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Contact Name: Steve Hunt - Secretary/Treasurer USS Brooke Assoc.
E-mail: thehubbahubba@aol.com
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.
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