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DE-1027 USS JOHN WILLIS

CLASS: DEALEY (As Built) FY / SCB No.: 52/72
Displacement:1314 tons (std), 1877 tons (full) Dimensions:314' 6"(oa), 308" (wl) x 36' 9" x 18' 0"
Armament: 4 x 3"/50 (2x2) Mk 33, 1 Mk 108 ASW rocket launcher, 6-324mm Mk 32 (2x3) tubes / Mk 46 torpedos
Machinery: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 De Laval geared turbine; 20,000 shp; 1 shaft
Speed: 27 knots Range: 6,000 nm @ 12 knots Crew: 12 / 161

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by New York SB&DD Co., Camden NJ 5 July 1955
Launched 4 February 1956, Commissioned 21 February 1957
Decommissioned (unknown), Stricken 14 July 1972
Fate: sold for scrapping 8 May 1973

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John Willis 76k undated USN / Gerald Meyers
John Willis 56k

Scanned from the cruise book of May to September 1967 on our Northern European and Med Cruise.
I think the picture was taken in the fjords of Norway, either coming or going to the city of Bergen.

USN / James T. Toms
CWO3 (BOSN) USCG (ret)

USS JOHN WILLIS DE-1027 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

2004 Reunion for all Newport Based Dealeys
16 - 19 September 2004 at the Crown Plaza Hotel, Warwick RI
Chairman is Marc Arsenault
E-mail: marc-a@rcn.com or contact through Newport Dealey link below

2005 Reunion for all Newport Based Dealeys
20 - 23 October 2005 at the Airport Holiday Inn, Jacksonville FL
Chairman is Charlie (Shoe) Holzschuh
E-mail: norchar1@juno.com or contact through Newport Dealey link below


Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.


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