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Replace blue infobox with latest light blue box and added required data.

Added first paragraph describing career of the ship.

Replaced abbreviated text with entire text from DANFS.

Added 'see also', refs, cat, etc. Wikited ( talk) 21:51, 25 March 2008 (UTC) reply

Having been commissioned in January 1859 and decommissioned in May 1889, it seems to me the final phrase of the third paragraph "nearly half a century" would be more accurate if it were changed to "over three decades," and give a better feel for the ship's service life if an actual length of time is not to be used. Jmac1962 ( talk) 14:31, 9 July 2008 (UTC) reply

Good point. Change made... Wikited ( talk) 19:20, 25 July 2008 (UTC) reply

Banner asking for footnotes does not apply as the entire page is from DANFS. Wikited ( talk) 19:21, 25 July 2008 (UTC) reply

It is my understanding that Brooklyn was a sloop-of-war and not a ship-of-the-line. However, it is listed in the catagory of United States Ships-of-the-line. Shouldn't that be removed?

I've removed references to the Brooklyn being a ship-of-the-line; with only 21 guns she's clearly too small to be classified as such. Arabani ( Talk ∞ Contribs) 03:28, 18 July 2009 (UTC) reply

This duplicates the account in the main article Battle of Mobile Bay and should be removed and replaced by a link. Bob ( talk) 20:43, 10 June 2009 (UTC) reply