Brooklyn (CL 40) - Naval Cruise Book

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The American ships were to carry exactly the same armament as those of the Japanese, disposed as to main battery in the same way. But, whereas, the displacement of the Japanese ships was 8,500 tons, the American cruisers were of a standard 10,000 ton, permitting carriage of additional fuel and greater armor protection. Prior to the development of these cruisers, Navies, in general, were content to mount not more than nine 6-inchers on the light cruiser. The fifteen 6-inch rifle innovation on BROOKLYN Class made it apparent that a race for more and for heavier guns per ship was underway. training and, indoctrination in the warm waters of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the BROOKLYN put in her first appearance with the United States Fleet off Colon, Panama Canal Zone in the wanning days of 1938. She was one of the three ships making up Cruiser Division Eight fthe others then were USS PHILADELPHIA and USS SAVANNAHJ' which was under the command of Rear Admiral Forde A. Todd. She conducted gunnery and operational practices with the Fleet from January to April, 1939. In mid-April she was honored by being ordered to return to her fhome port to participate in the opening of the multi-million-dollar New York World's Fair. Captain william W. Smith relieved Captain Brereton as Commanding Officer on 18 May 1939. The BROOKLYN was ordered by the Chief of Naval Operations, on 23 May 1939, to proceed to the scene of the SQUALUS submarine disaster, six miles south of the Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire. During salvage operations on the sunken submarine, BROOKLYN gave invaluable aid while acting in the capacity of a base ship. ' Laying of the Keel of the USS BROOKLYN CCL 401 . Navy Yard, New York, 12 March 1935 I christen you USS BROOKLYN said by the very pretty Miss Kathryn Jane Lackey 30 November 1936, and sent this Gallant Lady on her way to make Navy History. Approximately a year after the keel laying, on 30 November 1936, USS BROOKLYN CCL 403 careened down the lubricated fabrication of timbers and was borne by choppy North Atlantic waters. Wielding the traditional champagne bottle at the formal launching ceremonies was Miss Kathryn Jane Lackey, daughter of Rear Admiral F. R. Lackey, born in Brooklyn, educated in Brooklyn, and proud descendant of five generations of Brooklyn residents. Captain Jonas H. Ingram represented the Commandant, U.S. Navy Yard, New York, as he placed the 608-foot light cruiser in full commission on 30 September 1937. Captain William D. Brereton, Jr., USN, embarked as her first Commanding Officer. Following the builder's trial run and a period of Shakedown USS BROOKLYNICL 401 is water-borne 30 November 1936 A Completing this assignment, BROOKLYN, still attached to Cruiser Division Eight, transited the Panama Canal to rejoin the Fleet at San Pedro, California, participating in the opening of the West Coast's well-timed, multi- million-dollar Golden Gate Exposition at San Francisco, California. The visit to the Golden Gate Exposition gave the public a chance to see the New Navy. Below: The Christening party, left to right, Adm. F.RL Lackey, USN, Mrs. Harris Laning, Mr. Edwin H. Thatcher, Miss Hester Laning, Miss Kathryn J. Lackey, Miss Dorothy LeGennousen, Adm. W.H. Standley, and Mrs. W.H. Standley. 30 November 1936 if A2 ' .l is 4' -1

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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

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- Early in January 1940, as the Teutonic juggernauts rode roughshod over the rubble-strewn European graveyard, the BROOKLYN took part in the Army-Navy amphibious maneuvers off Monterey, California. Her crew's gunnery training was stepped up. Also, the men were thoroughly taught the proper method of handling casualties and making damage repairs under simulated battle conditions. This investment in rigorous training was to accrue a dividend of inestimable value in the not-too-far-distant uture. In April 1940 she sailed to Pearl Harbor to take part in the Annual Fleet Problem during the summer months, then proceeded back to Mare Island, California, in October 1940 for a short yard availability. The BROOKLYN returned to Pearl Harbor. There, on 3 February of the fateful year 1941, Captain Smith was detached, yielding his command to Captain Ellis S. Stone, USN. A week later BROOKLYN steamed with Philadelphia, Savannah and Nashville caarryang reinforcements for the Marine garrison on Midway s an . In March 1941 BROOKLYN made a good-will and training tour, stopping at Samoa, Auckland, New Zealand, and fabulous Tahiti. May saw her once more berthed at Pearl Harbor where she received surprising orders to return to Atlantic waters. In compliance, she passed through the Panama Canal once more and sped to Boston via Guantanamo Bay. World events were fast coming to a head. The United States decided to throw up an outer bulwark in frigid Iceland. The BROOKLYN, plus the battleships USS New York and USS Arkansas and other units of the Fleet, steamed in transport convoy to Reykjavik, Iceland, to land the initial contingent of American troops late in June. As friendly enemies checked and counter-checked on the diplomatic chessboard, Uncle Sam's formidable floating pawns cruised throughout the Atlantic Ocean on a series of neutrality patrol. At various times, BROOKLYN operated with the flat-tops Wasp, Ranger and Yorktown on such pre-war patrols. Captain Ellis S. STONE, officer commanding the visiting United States squadron 19 March 1941. A group of United States Sailors at the Hot Springs in New Zealand. The young children enjoy swimming in thetempid water. Insert is an invitation to tea. OFFICERS SAND MEN, POF AMERICAN SEQUADRON ACCLASIMEJDI. A IITISIISA IRARADE ' Q f 4 , A