Brooklyn (CL 40) - Naval Cruise Book

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W, USS BROOKLYN Sloop Steamer 1860 - 1889 USS BROOKLYN No. 1 was a 3000-ton SLOOP STEAMERU built for the United States Government during the 1858 transition period between canvas and steam by Westervelt and Company, New York City. Her 24 Guns were a Federal asset in the mid-Nineteenth Century effort to preserve a tottering UNION. Acting with the West Gulf Squadron, the BROOKLYN participated in attacks on Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip, distinguishing herself in FARRAGUT'S assault on New Orleans in April, 1862. She cannonaded Galveston, Texas, and was in on the seizure of Mobile, Alabama. She took eight prizes of war and aided in the capture of four Confederate Steamers. - USS BROOKLYN No. 2 grew out of the Philadelphia shipyard of historic William Camp and Sons, and was duly commissioned in the United States Navy on 1.December 1896. The 9,215-ton Armored Cruiser made a maiden cruise to England, hurried back to her country's defense when the war drums began beating. As Flagship of Rear Admiral Schely's Flying Squadron She promptly establlshed. a blockade at the southern Cuban port of CienFuegos Wlth the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. The Flying Squadron breezed to Santiago Harbor, Cuba, on 3 July 1898, and thereupon engaged the Spanish Fleet 1n the second of the two decisive Naval contests of what was primarily a Naval war. The Heavy C1'111Se1' BROOKLYN'S eight 8-inch and twelve 5-inch guns belched smoke and hot steel all through the struggle. Salvo after salvo was thrown into the Harbor's mouth in an effort t0 Prevent the Spanish ships from escaping the death-trap. Suddenly, aboard Flagship BROOKLYN, something Weill? awry. --4

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