Brooke (FFG 1) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1982

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USS BROOKE (FFG-1) 1981-82 WESTPAC INDIAN OCEAN DEPLOYMENT BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN

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JOHN MERCER BROOKE USS BROOKE (FFG 1) is named in honor of John Mercer BROOKE, a distinguished officer of the United States Navy and the Confederate States Navy. BROOKE was born December 18, 1826 near Tampa, Florida. He was appointed midshipman in 1841 and first served at sea in DELAWARE under Commander David Glasgow FARRAGUT in Brazilian waters. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1847. BROOKE served with the hydrographic party of the Coast Survey under LT S. P. LEE. He also served with Matthew F. MAURY at the Naval Observatory where he invented a deep-sea sounding apparatus which brought ocean specimens to light and enabled ocean topography to be mapped. He served in VINCENNES in the North Pacific and Bering Straits Surveying and Exploring Expedition, aiding Commodore John ROGERS in preparing charts and records of the expedition. In 1858. BROOKE was assigned to survey a route from California to China, which he successfully completed. A Lieutenant in the United States Navy at the outbreak of the Civil War. BROOKE resigned his commission to join the Virginia State Navy and, thereafter, the Confederate States Navy. He invented the BROOKE gun, the most powerful employed by the Confederates. BROOKE also devised the plans for reconstructing MERRIMACK into a powerful ironclad for which he prepared the armor and guns. He became a Commander in the Confederate States Navy on September 13, 1862. Six months later he was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, Confederate States Navy, a post he held throughout the remainder of the Civil War. BROOKE taught at the Virginia Military Institute after the close of the Civil War. He retired in 1899 and died December 14, 1906. I 1

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