Jouett (DLG 29) - Naval Cruise Book

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USS JOUETT (DD-41) Length -- 293 feet 11 inches Beam — 27 feet Displaced -- 787 tons Armament — 3 50 caliber Six 18 torpedo tubes Draft — 8 feet 4 inches Speed — 27.5 knots Crew — 4 officers, 79 enlisted JOUETT (DD-41) was built by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine. Her keel was laid 7 March 1911. She was launched 15 April 1912 and commissioned at Boston 24 May 1912. JOUETT joined the Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Flotilla and operated along the eastern seaboard out of Norfolk, Newport, Boston and New York. This coastal duty was inter- vened by annual spring maneuvers with the fleet in waters off Cuba, hi April 1914 she supported the landing of mai ines and sailors at Vera Cruz, Mexico. She took up patrol in the Delaware Bay when the United States entered World War I, later extending her cruising grounds to areas of search between Norfolk and Boston. On 8 August 1917 she sailed from New York as a unit of the escort for a convoy of five troop ships carrying American Expeditionary Forces to St. Nazaire, France. Return- ing to Boston 26 August, she resumed patrol along the eastern seaboard in waters reaching to the Virginia Capes. This duty terminated 15 January 1918 when JOUETT arrived at New London, Connecticut for experimental operations with new antisub- marine devices. Her experimental work was concluded by 4 June 1918 when she became the flagship of the Special Anti -Submarine Division. Thereafter she operated with a flotilla of submarine chasers searching the eastern seaboard for German U- boats . On 1 November 1918 she joined the Destroyer Force, Home Waters, based at Charleston, South Carolina. She was decommissioned in the Philadelphia Navy Yard m July 1919. JOUETT was then loaned to the U.S. Coast Guard for seven years for cutter operations and then sold for scrapping 22 August 1934 in Brooklyn, New York.

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THE FLAG SALUTE AT COLORS ABOARD SHIP The first order that can be found on the subject is that of Admiral James E . Jouett. The squadron order was dated 22 November, 1884, and read: The attention of the squadron is called to the fact that at colors no custom has hitherto prevailed of giving appropriate recognition, by salute or otherwise, to the flag, the emblem, not only of the national authority at home, but of liberty and progress throughout the world. Under the conviction that such a recognition is fitting and desirable, and that the custom, if adopted by all, should be the spontaneous expression of a general sentiment, the commander in chief deems it only necessai-y to express the wish that on board the ships of the North Atlantic Squadron all officers and men who may be on deck at colors will uncover, as far as practicable without serious interruption to the occupation of the moment. It is interesting to note that in 1884 all salutes were rendered by removing the headdress. And although there was a ceremony for the guard and others who were on duty at colors, the above order clearly indicates that others in the vicinity paid no attention to the ceremony. The custom of standing at attention and saluting became in time a naval regulation. Thus the wish of an admiral became the order of our day. Naval Customs, Traditions and Usage

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USS JOUETT (DD-396) Length — 390 feet 11 inches Beam — 3b feet Displaced— 2130 tons Ai-manient— eight 5 38 caliber guns two .50 63.8 caliber guns nine 21 torpedo tubes Draft — 11 feet 4 inches Speed — 37.5 knots Crew — 10 officers, 225 enlisted The second JOUETT (DD-396) was built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation, Bath, Maine. Her keel was laid 27 March 1934 and she was launched 24 September 1938. JOUETT was commissioned in the Boston Naval Sliipyard 25 January 1939.