Light cruiser BROOKLYN (CL-40)
Ordered:13 February 1929
Builder:Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York
Laid down:12 March 1935
Launched:30 November 1936
Sponsored by:Miss Kathryn Jane Lackey
Commissioned:30 September 1937
Decommissioned:3 January 1947
Stricken:22 January 1951