Jouett (DLG 29) - Naval Cruise Book

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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.

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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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Ill 1939 she made goodwill trips to Cobb, Ireland, Le Havre, France and Chatham, England. In 1940 she escorted the cruiser TUSCALOOSA, carrying President Roosevelt and presidential party, on a cruise through the Panama Canal and Costa Rica. During 1941 with the signs of war growing more ominous she visited Pearl Harbor. Later that year she joined Rear Admiral Ingram ' s Task Force that patrolled the South Atlantic in constant readiness against hostile German ships or U- boats. During 1942 JOUETT was instrumental in sinking the German submarine U-128, the German blockade- runner SS RIO GRANDE and the German blockade -runner SS BURGENLAND. In 1944 JOUETT escorted reinforce- ments to the beaches of Normandy, and acted as a gunfire support ship. In the fall of 1944 she participated in the invasion of Southern France as a gunfire support ship and as flagship for several Destroyer Squadron Commanders . JOUETT (DD-396) received three battle stars for the following operations: SINKING OF GERMAN SUBMARINE U-128. INVASION OF NORMANDY (including bombardment of Cherbourg). INVASION OF SOUTHERN FRANCE. II