Photo #: NH 369 USS Brooks (Destroyer # 232/DD-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. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 69 KB; 900 x 720 pixels |
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Image posted 29 November 2010