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USS Brooke (DEG-1)


Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - B - T - E
Tactical Voice Radio Call: "Mystic Isle"


Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation w/ star
Second Row: Navy Battle E Ribbon - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Third Row: Vietnam Service Medal w/ 5 stars - Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal


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 17 September 1988, Stricken 2 January 1994

Fate: Leased to Pakistan 8 February 1989, renamed PNS Khaibar (D-162)
Returned USN 14 November 1993 at Singapore and
sold for scrapping 29 March 1994 to Trusha Investments Pte. Ltd.
c/o Jacques Pierot, Jr. & Sons Inc., NYC, NY for $635,400

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Brooke 72k John Mercer Brooke (18 December 1826 - 14 December 1906) was born at Tampa Bay FL, 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 DC 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.

USS Brooke DEG-1 was the first ship named in his honor. (US Navy photo #NH58902 from the US Naval Historical Center)
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Brooke 87k unknown location/date -
Brooke 118k 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. -
Brooke 51k unknown date/location, Brooke launching an ASROC missile during trials in the Pacific Robert Hurst
Brooke 46k unknown date/location, Brooke underway during trials in the Pacific
Brooke 181k 15 June 1982: NavSta Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands - An aerial view of the US Naval Ship Repair Facility. Berthed at the shipyard are the Knox-class frigate USS Roark (FF-1053) and USS Harold E. Holt (FF-1074). Moored alongside them is Brooke. (US Navy photo DVID #DN-SN-84-06232 by PH1 David MacLean from the Defense Visual Information Center) Navsource
Brooke 333k 2 November 1983: Apra Harbor, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands - A port bow view of Brooke, front, and the frigate USS Badger (FF-1071) moored at a pier. (US Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-90-07741 by PHAN M. Anderson from the DVIC)
Brooke 151k 17 January 1988: off San Clemente Island CA - Head-on aerial view. (US Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-04-09284 by PHC T.R. Dupree from the DVIC)
Brooke 240k 17 January 1988: off San Clemente Island CA - Starboard view. (US Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-04-09283 by PHC T.R. Dupree from the DVIC)
Brooke 185k 17 January 1988: off San Clemente Island CA - Port view. (US Navy photo DVID #DN-SC-04-09282 by PHC T.R. Dupree from the DVIC)
Brooke 148k 8 February 1989: NavSta San Diego CA - The Pakistani navy ships PNS Aslat (F-265), left, and PNS Khaibar (D-163) lay tied up at a pier following their commissioning. The Aslat and Khaibar, formerly the frigate USS O'Callahan (FF-1051) and the guided missile frigate Brooke, respectively, are being leased to the government of Pakistan for five years. (US Navy photo DVID #DN-ST-90-03785 by PH1 Michael D.P. Flynn from the DVIC)

Brooke Memorabilia
Ship's Mug
Brooke
Courtesy of Mike Smolinski

View the USS Brooke (DEG-1), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historic Center website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Next Reunion:
25 to 29 October 2006 at Charleston SC
Contact Name: Steve Hunt - Secretary/Treasurer USS Brooke Assoc.
Address: PO Box 1692 / Tacoma WA
Phone: (253) 473-6742
E-mail: thehubbahubba@aol.com

Note About Contacts

Contact information is compiled from various sources over a period of time and may, or may not, be correct. Every effort has been
made to list the newest contact. However, our entry is only as good as the latest information that's been sent to us. We list only
a contact for the ship if one has been sent to us. We do NOT have crew lists or rosters available. Please see the Frequently Asked
Questions section on Navsource's Main Page for that information.


Additional Resources

USS Brooke Website
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
USS Brooke Page on Destroyers Online
USS Brooke Page on Military.Com
USS Brooke Page on Navysite

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