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DE-1027 USS JOHN WILLIS

CLASS - DEALEY As Built
Displacement, 1314 Tons Standard, 1877 Tons Full Load, Dimensions, 315' x 36' 8" x 11' 10"
Armament, 4 x 3"/50 (twin) Mk 33, 1 Mk 108 ASW Rocket Launcher
6-324mm US Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes for Mk 46 torpedoes
Machinery, 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 De Laval geared turbine; 20,000shp; 1 shaft
Speed, 27 Knots, Range, 6,000 NM @12kts., Crew 173 (12 officers)

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)
John Willis 52k

Ship's Patch

Mike Smolinski

USS JOHN WILLIS DE-1027 History
Not available at this time
DANFS History Archive
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

2003 Reunion for all Newport Based Dealeys
2 - 5 October 2003 at the Holiday Inn, 521 Greenfield Road, Lancaster PA
Chairman is Bob Kitchen (USS Lester 1957-59)
Co-Chairman is Charlie Holzachuh (USS Hartley 1961-63)
E-mail: 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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