USS Brooke (FFG-1)

USS Brooke (FFG-1) was the lead ship of her class of guided missile frigates in the United States Navy from 1962-1988. She was named for John Mercer Brooke. As of 2005, no other ship in the United States Navy has been named Brooke.

History
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 and type:	Brooke-class frigate
Displacement:	5,400 tons
Length:	390 ft (120 m)
Beam:	44 ft (13 m)
Draft:	14 ft 6 in (4.42 m)
Propulsion:	2 Foster-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
Sensors and processing systems:	AN/SPS-52 3D air search radar AN/SPS-10 surface search radar AN/SPG-51 missile fire control radar AN/SQS-26 bow mounted sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys:	AN/SLQ-32 AN/SLQ-25 Nixie
Armament:	1 × 5"/38 caliber gun 1 × Mk 22 RIM-24 Tartar/RIM-66 Standard missile launcher (16 missiles) 1 × 8 cell ASROC launcher 2 × triple 12.75 in (324 mm) Mk 32 torpedo tubes, Mk 46 torpedoes 2 × MK 37 torpedo tubes (fixed, stern, removed later)
Aircraft carried:	SH-2 Seasprite

Laid down on 19 December 1962 by Lockheed Ship Building, Brooke was launched on 19 July 1963 and commissioned on 12 March 1966. Originally designated DEG-1, she was redesignated FFG-1 in 1975. She served in the Pacific Fleet and was homeported in San Diego, California.