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    USS Brooke (FFG-1) was the lead ship of her class of guided missile frigates in the United States Navy from 1962 to 1988. She was named for John Mercer...
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    lead ship would be named USS Brooke (FFG-80). Later the U.S. Navy clarified via Twitter that reports about reusing the USS Brooke name for a new warship...
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  • War of 1971. PNS Khaibar (1989), the former United States Brooke-class frigate USS Brooke (FFG-1) acquired by Pakistan in 1989 and returned in 1993....
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    The Brooke class was a United States Navy frigate class based on the design of the Garcia class, but with the addition of the Tartar Guided Missile System...
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    University of Rhode Island, Boorda assumed duties as Executive Officer, USS Brooke, a guided missile destroyer. In October 1972, the Seventh Fleet, including...
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    Dealey-class (4) Claud Jones-class (2) Bronstein-class (11) Garcia-class (6) Brooke-class (DEG) (46) Knox-class (82) total The ocean escort type corresponded...
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    Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, Shields gained widespread notoriety...
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    S. Navy ships have been named Brooks. Sherman A. Minton, World War II USS Brooke (FFG-1) for a ship with a similar name.  This article incorporates text...
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  • These were USS Elliot, USS Badger, USS Sterett, USNS Hassayampa, USS Callaghan, USS Brooke, USS Meyerkord, USS Towers, USS Stark and USS Wichita. In...
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    DE-770, DE-771 DE-574 USS Burrows (DE-105), USS Rinehart (DE-196), USS Gustafson (DE-182), USS O'Neill (DE-188), USS Eisner (DE-192), USS Stern (DE-187) DE-746...
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    Museum ships USS Ainsworth (DE-1090) - İnciraltı Sea Museum, İzmir, Turkey USS Slater (DE-766) - Destroyer Escort Historical Museum, Albany, NY USS Stewart...
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    scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack. Virginia was one of the participants in the Battle of Hampton Roads, opposing the Union's USS Monitor in March 1862...
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    pages. USS A-1 (SS-2, SP-1370) USS A-2 (SS-3) USS A-3 (SS-4) USS A-4 (SS-5) USS A-5 (SS-6) USS A-6 (SS-7) USS A-7 (SS-8) USS AA-1 (SS-52/SF-1) USS AA-2...
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    Allegiance  United States Service/branch United States Navy Years of service 1955–1988 Rank Vice admiral Commands Destroyer Group Eight USS Halsey USS Brooke...
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  • malaproprism "Berzerkly" – USS Berkeley (DDG-15); humorous malaproprism "Broke" – USS Brooke (FFG-1); humorous malaproprism "Brand X" – USS Mississippi (CGN-40);...
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  • Confederacy. Currently two active ships exist which fell under this category – USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) and USNS Maury (T-AGS-66) – until their renaming...
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    1965 to 1990. The Brooke class comprised 6 ships, commissioned from 1966 to 1968. The last active-duty ship of this class, the USS Julius A. Furer (FFG-6)...
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    the Union gunboat USS Sagamore steamed into Tampa Bay and demanded the surrender of the small Confederate garrison at Fort Brooke. When the demand was...
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    later promoted to Lieutenant. As executive officer aboard the armed yacht USS Aphrodite he saw service escorting convoys and was aboard when she struck...
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    the USS Powhatan. In 1861, Brooke resigned from the U.S. Navy to join the Confederate Navy. He was involved in the conversion of the frigate USS Merrimack...
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    (178 mm) Brooke rifles on pivot mounts at the bow and stern. The middle gun port on each side was occupied by a single-banded, 6.4-inch (163 mm) Brooke rifle...
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  • Captain Silas Talbot. USS Talbot (FFG-4) was a Brooke-class frigate commissioned in 1967, named after Captain Silas Talbot. USS J. Fred Talbott, a Wickes-class...
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    to Mobile to be engined and armed. Her steam plant came from the steamer USS Alonzo Child. Her casemate design differed materially from CSS Columbia and...
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    overseas movement. The frigate stood out of Pearl Harbor with USS Elliot and USS Brooke on 24 April. The three warships then carried out several exercises...
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    with merit from the United States Naval Academy in 1978 and reported to USS Brooke for his first sea tour. He returned to the Naval Academy in 1981 as an...
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    USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (Navy Fleet Collier No. 3)...
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    USS General J. R. Brooke (AP-132) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship for the U.S. Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of U.S. Army...
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    the poem "Tiare Tahiti" by Rupert Brooke and the 1920 novel This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The USS Enterprise is ordered to a Federation...
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    USS Julius A. Furer (FFG-6) was a Brooke-class frigate in the United States Navy. Julius A. Furer was launched 22 July 1966 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath...
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    USS Knox (DE/FF-1052) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer escorts in the United States Navy. Knox was named after Commodore Dudley Wright Knox...
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