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 0523209 |
207k | Born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, in 1783, John Brooks Jr., was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps, 01 October 1807. He commanded the detachment of Marines on Commodore Perry's flagship Lawrence, and was killed in action during the Battle of Lake Erie, 10 September 1813. | Bill Gonyo | |
| USS Brooks (DD-232) |
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 0523203 |
113k | Undated, location unknown. | Curt Clark, The Four Stack APD Veterans | |
 0523204 |
92k | Undated, location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
 0520922 |
170k | Undated, passing the Brooklyn Bridge. | Darryl Baker | |
 0523211 |
83k | Undated, location unknown. Photo from the John Dickey collection. | Ed Zajkowski | |
 0523215 |
254k | Undated postcard, a colorized version of the above photo. | Tommy Trampp | |
 0523214 |
104k | Undated, transiting the Panama Canal. | Tommy Trampp | |
 0523216 |
109k | Undated, location unknown. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET. | |
 0512901 |
887k | Wickes-class destroyers fitting out at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation yard at Camden, New Jersey, May 1919. These ships are (from left to right): Dickerson (Destroyer No. 157, builder's hull 216); Leary (Destroyer No. 158, builder's hull 217); Schenck (Destroyer No. 159, builder's hull 218); Herbert (Destroyer No. 160, builder's hull 219); Brooks (Destroyer No. 232, builder's hull 221); Hatfield (Destroyer No. 231, builder's hull 220); Babbitt (Destroyer No. 128, builder's hull 213) and DeLong (Destroyer No. 129, builder's hull 214). Note triple torpedo tubes on the wharf in the center foreground, and destroyer smokestacks in the lower left. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 42530 | Joe Radigan / Robert Hurst | |
 0523410 |
592k | Destroyers fitting out at New York Shipbuilding Corporation yard, Camden, New Jersey, 02 October 1919. The second ship from the camera is Humphreys (Destroyer No. 236). The fourth through sixth are Brooks (Destroyer No. 232), Fox (Destroyer No. 234) and Kane (Destroyer No. 235). Their builder's hull numbers were (respectively) 225, 221, 223 and 224. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 42532 | Robert Hurst | |
 0523205 |
71k | Underway, circa 1920. | Robert Hurst | |
 0523213 |
130k | USS Brooks (Destroyer No. 232) Steaming at high speed during trials, 1920. Photograph from the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey. It bears a date of 18 October 1920, four months after her 18 June 1920 commissioning. Note her 5"/51 guns. Brooks was one of five "flush-deck" destroyers fitted with these weapons, in place of the usual 4"/50 guns. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 369 | Robert Hurst | |
 0523201 |
146k | Steaming at high speed during trials, 1920. Photograph from the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey. It bears a date of 18 October 1920, four months after her 18 June 1920 commissioning. Note her 5"/51 guns. Brooks was one of five "flush-deck" destroyers fitted with these weapons, in place of the usual 4"/50 guns. | Robert Hurst | |
 0523218 |
144k | Brooks moored in a nest with other flush-deckers, location unknown, 1921. Note the older "flivvers" at left. | Bill Penn | |
 0523219 |
268k | Portrait of Brooks' officers and crew, 1921. | Bill Penn | |
 0523216 |
744k | U.S. destroyers moored side-by-side after a day's manoeuvers in Haitian waters, circa late 1920s or 1930s. These ships are (from front to rear): USS Kane (DD-235); USS Hatfield (DD-231); USS Brooks (DD-232) and USS Lawrence (DD-250). The first three destroyers carry 5"/51 guns mounted on their sterns, while Lawrence has the normal 4"/50 gun mounted atop her after deckhouse, with a 3"/23 anti-aircraft gun on her stern. Note bedding airing on the ships' lifelines. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 52227 | Robert Hurst | |
 0523210 |
169k | Moored at Juneau, Alaska, circa 1930. From the collection of John Dickey. | Ed Zajkowski | |
 0523202 |
74k | Location unknown, circa 1940. | Marc Piché | |
 0523217 |
97k | Underway in the Pacific Northwest, 1942. | Levi Ballard, Alaska Military History Association | |
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | LT Donald MacLean Dalton (USNA 1915) | 18 June 1920 - 10 July 1920 |
| 02 | CDR Theodore Gordon Ellyson (USNA 1905) | 10 July 1920 - 09 September 1920 |
| 03 | CDR Frank Jack Fletcher (USNA 1906) | 09 September 1920 - 21 November 1920 |
| 04 | CDR Victor Stuart Houston (USNA 1897) | 21 November 1920 - 21 April 1921 |
| 05 | LT Joseph James Clark (USNA 1918) | 21 April 1921 - 05 May 1921 |
| 06 | LCDR Howard Melvin Lammers (USNA 1908) | 05 May 1921 - 16 June 1922 |
| 07 | LCDR Ralph Chandler Parker (USNA 1907) | 16 June 1922 - 21 December 1924 |
| 08 | LCDR Ernest Gregor Small (USNA 1912) | 21 December 1924 - 11 June 1926 |
| 09 | LCDR Louis Emil Denfield (USNA 1912) | 11 June 1926 - 27 June 1929 |
| 10 | LCDR William Garrett Greenman (USNA 1912) | 27 June 1929 - 18 June 1930 |
| 11 | CDR Henry Davis McGuire (USNA 1908) | 18 June 1930 - 08 July 1930 |
| 12 | LT Thomas Henry Kehoe (USNA 1922) | 08 July 1930 - 20 January 1931 |
| Decommissioned | 20 January 1931 - 18 June 1932 | |
| 13 | LCDR William Walter Warlick (USNA 1918) | 18 June 1932 - 12 April 1933 |
| 14 | LCDR Charles Frederick Fielding USN | 12 April 1933 - 01 April 1934 |
| Decommissioned | 01 April 1934 - 10 June 1935 | |
| 15 | LT Oral Raymond Swigart (USNA 1921-B) | 10 June 1935 - May 1937 |
| 16 | LCDR William Wheatley Cone (USNA 1921-A) | May 1937 - 02 September 1938 |
| Decommissioned | 02 September 1938 - 25 April 1939 | |
| 17 | LT William Robert Lefavour (USNA 1931) | 25 April 1939 - 17 May 1939 |
| 18 | LCDR Elliott Bowman Strauss (USNA 1923) | 17 May 1939 - 12 December 1940 |
| As APD-10 | ||
| 19 | LCDR Charles Tod Singleton, Jr. (USNA 1926) | 21 December 1940 - 07 October 1942 |
| 20 | LCDR John William Ramey (USNA 1932) | 07 October 1942 - 07 August 1943 |
| 21 | LCDR Charles Vern Allen D-V(G) USNR | 07 August 1943 - 07 August 1944 |
| 22 | LT Sidney Clarence Rasmussen, Jr. D-V(G) USNR | 07 August 1944 - 21 August 1945 |
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The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.
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