Newman K Perry (DDR 883) - Naval Cruise Book

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QQMMANDING oPP1cER CDR OVVEN A. ROBERTS, USN Commander Owen A. Roberts, U. S. Navy, assumed command of the USS NEVV MAN K. PERRY QDDR-8835 on 29 April 1960. Previous to this assignment, Commander Roberts had been Head of the Section for Guided Missile Training in the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, D. C-. He was Executive Officer of the USS y VOGELGESANG- QDD-8-625 Wh1Ch operated with the fast carrier forces of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean and European waters prior to his assignment to the Bureau of Naval Personnel. During World War II, Commander Roberts served aboard the destroyers DECATUR and TAUSSIG in the Atlantic and Pacific, and early in the Korean conflict he was Executive Officer of an LST which took part in landings on the coasts of Korea. Commander Roberts is in his seventeenth year of naval service and in his fourth assign- ment to destroyers. He has also served aboard two LST's, the guided missile developmental ship USS NORTON SOUND QAVM-lj, and as Assistant Operations Officer of Task GTQU-P 7.1 LOS ALAMOS SCIENTIFIC LABORATORY during certain nuclear tests at the P2lC1f1C Proving Grounds and at the Nevada Test Site for which the Presidential Citation W2lS d d h awar e t e Laboratory and Commander Joint Task Force Seven personal commendation t0 Commander Roberts. He is a graduate of Loyola U niversity, New Orleans, Louisiana, the U.S. Naval .Post grad- uate School in Monterey, California, the U.S. Army Guided Missiles School, Fort Bliss, Texas, and the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk,Virginia. I . While in the Washington Area, Commander Roberts was active in local groups and CIYIC affairs. He is an active member of the McLean Estates Civic Association, the MCLCHH Little League the Boy Scouts of America and S h I - 1 ,- t. Jo n's .Catholic Church Men's Council. He 1S married to the former Mary Medling of jackson, Tennessee and the father of two sons and two daughters. P

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Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea during every year through 1960 except 1951 and 1953. In July 1959 she had her home port changed to Charleston, South Carolina, from where she now operates. The NEWMAN K. PERRY is a GEARING Class, 2250 ton long hull Radar Picket Destroyer with an actual full load displacement of 3500 tons. She is 300 feet 6 inches long, has an ex- treme beam of 40 feet 10 inches and a mean draft of 14 feet 8 inches. Her propulsion system consists of 4 boilers and 2 geared turbines with a maximum output of.60,000 shaft horsepower. Her primary function as a DDR is to serve as a long range warning picket and fighter control ship against enemy aircraft while operating with Fast Carrier Task Forces, a job for which she is well equipped. The wartime complement is 18 Officers and 296 Enlisted Men, however, the ship presently operates with 15 Officers and 248 Enlisted Men. She is commanded by Owen A. Roberts, CDR, USN.

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- H m- ,,. USS N K PERRY KDDR 8835 Q AW ' FLEET Posr oFFlcE NEW YORK NEW YORK IN REPLY REFER 'ro Q, 5 ' ' rsni K ..,,xxxyxxx ' -T 9 , 545' '0 ' ' 1 Q Q . Q 0 xl f Q l +1 . 1+ I ' :T 1 I vi ,, 1 I 4 Q I O . . - Q! x ' 0: xxxXXKxs5'... SHIPS MEMORANDUM: This is the picture story of a destroyer and her crew on foreign deploy- II1C1'1t. Only a seaman realizes to what great extent a ship reflects the person- ality and ability of her crew. To a landsman this is not understandable and sometimes it is even difficult for us to comprehend, but it is so. lt is so, because a ship derives her reputation from the skill with which she is handled, and the dispatch and proficiency in which she carries out her assigned operations. The NEWMAN K. PERRY never missed an operation and was the smartest destroyer during her Mediterranean deployment, 28 January l960 to 31 August 1960. VVe the crew can take great pride-because it was so. VVell done shiprnates. Wagf Owen A. ROBERTS Commander, U.S. Navy Commanding