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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USS BROOKLYN ICL 402 30 September 1937 - 30 January 1946 In 1930, the citizens of Brooklyn, New York, were united in their request to have the name BROOKLYN given to the 10,000-ton cruiser building at the Brooklyn Navy Yard at the time. With a community spirit not uncommon to the most celebrated and colorful of the New York's boroughs, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce established a Brooklyn Cruiser Committee which worked feverishly, soon made the USS BROOKLYN Campaign known to its 2,300,000 civic-minded. constituents, submitted a rousing petition, copiously endorsed, to Navy Secretary Adams. The basis of the petition rested in the noteworthy services rendered the United States Navy by the two earlier USS BROOKLYNS. BROOKLYN, an honored name in the United States Naval History for more than seventy years, disappeared from the fleet with the disposition of the Armored Cruiser. Thus, Brooklynites everywhere clamored for a new USS BROOKLYN. This clamoring did not go unheeded. Under the terms of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, Congress in 1933 authorized the building of the BROOKLYN CLASS TREATY Cruisers, directed the New York Navy Yard to build the first of the class, USS BROOKLYN No. 3. Five triple 6-inch gun turrets were adapted farranged as in the Japanese NACHI class cruiser of 8-inch gunsb, three foreward and two aft with turrets II and IV in super-firing positions. The BROOKLYN class, nine cruisers of which were in the process of construction, introduced the Navy to the new-type, flush-deck cruiser hull with the high transom and built-in hanger aft. They were frankly an answer to the Japanese who had three ships. with .similar armament commissioned, and three additional in the building stage. These cruisers, both American and Japanese, were the most heavily gunned of their type in the World. i 1 1 ' 1 l l A