USS Brooks
Variant of Clemson-class destroyer
Service
- 18 June 1920 — 2 August 19452,162 days of the war
- Name
- USS Brooks
- Namesake
- John Brooks, Jr.
- Builder
- New York Shipbuilding
- Laid down
- 11 June 1918
- Launched
- 24 April 1919
- Commissioned
- 18 June 1920
- Decommissioned
- 20 January 1931
- Recommissioned
- 18 June 1932
- Struck
- 17 September 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 30 January 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,215 long tons (1,234 t)
- Length
- 95.71 m (314 ft)
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 33.2 knots (61.5 km/h, 38.2 mph)
- Range
- 4,900 nmi (9,075 km)
- Complement
- 130
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Brooks was a Variant of Clemson-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy. She was named for John Brooks. New York Shipbuilding laid her keel on 11 June 1918. Launched on 24 April 1919, she entered service on 18 June 1920.
Displacement was 1,215 long tons. She measured 95.7 m (314 ft) long with a beam of 9.4 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 33.2 knots, and she carried a complement of 130.
Her main battery was four 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 2,162 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 20 January 1931. She recommissioned on 18 June 1932. She was struck from the register on 17 September 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 30 January 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 26,500 shp (20 MW)
- geared turbines
- 2 screws
- Armament
- 4 x 5 in, 1 x 3 in, 12 x 21 inch (533 mm) tt.
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Brooks on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-8088 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons