USS Brooke (FFG-1)

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Career

Ordered:
Laid down:	19 December 1962
Launched:	19 July 1963
Commissioned:	12 March 1966
Decommissioned:	16 September 1988
Fate:	transferred to Pakistan, as Khaibar Returned 1993, Scrapped 1994
Struck:	2 January 1994
General Characteristics
Displacement:	5,400 tons
Length:	390 feet
Beam:	44 feet
Draft:
Propulsion:
Speed:	27 kt
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Depth:
Complement:
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Aircraft:	1 x SH-2F Seasprite LAMPS I
Motto:	Prima et Optima (First and Finest)

USS Brooke (DEG-1/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.

Laid down on December 19, 1962 by Lockheed Ship Building, Brooke was launched on July 19, 1963 and commissioned on March 12, 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.

22 years of history go here

Following decommissioning in 1988, she was transferred to Pakistan on February 1, 1989. Renamed Khaibar, she was returned to the United States on November 14, 1993 and sold for scrap on March 29, 1994.

As of 2005, no other ship in the United States Navy has been named Brooke.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.

Brooke-class frigate