_underway_on_17_January_1988_(6639999).jpg) USS Brooke (FFG-1) | |
| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Brooke |
| Namesake | John Mercer Brooke |
| Ordered | 4 January 1962 |
| Builder | Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company,Seattle, Washington |
| Laid down | 19 December 1962 |
| Launched | 19 July 1963 |
| Acquired | 7 March 1966 |
| Commissioned | 12 March 1966 |
| Decommissioned | 16 September 1988 |
| Stricken | 2 January 1994 |
| Motto | Prima et Optima (English:First and Finest) |
| Fate | Disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 28 March 1994 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Brooke-classfrigate |
| Displacement | 5,400 tons |
| Length | 390 ft (120 m) |
| Beam | 44 ft (13 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
| Propulsion | 2Foster-Wheeler boilers, 1 Westinghouse geared turbine |
| Speed | 27.2 knots (50.4 km/h) |
| Range | 4,000 nautical miles (7,000 km) |
| Complement | 14 officers, 214 crew |
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| Aircraft carried | SH-2 Seasprite |
USSBrooke (FFG-1) was thelead ship ofher class of guided missilefrigates in theUnited States Navy from 1962 to 1988. She was named forJohn Mercer Brooke. As of 2021, no other ship in the United States Navy has been namedBrooke.
Laid down on 19 December 1962 byLockheed Ship Building,Brooke waslaunched on 19 July 1963 andcommissioned on 12 March 1966. Originally designatedDEG-1, she was redesignatedFFG-1 in 1975. She served in thePacific Fleet and was homeported inSan Diego, California.
Followingdecommissioning in 1988, she was transferred to Pakistan on 1 February 1989. RenamedKhaibar, she was returned to the United States on 14 November 1993 and sold for scrap on 29 March 1994.
This article incorporatespublic domain material fromBrooke (FFG-1) at theNaval Vessel Register.
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