Jouett (DLG 29) - Naval Cruise Book

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CHANGE OF COMMAN Captains Gravely and Barnhart shake hands while Commodore Stickles looks on. 6 Captain Barnhart reads his orders. On 22 May Captain Robert C. Barn- hart was relieved as Commanding Officer of JOUETT. Assuming command of JOUETT is the highest ranking Negro line officer in the Navy: Captain Sam- uel L. Gravely, Jr. Commodore Stickles pays tribute to Captain Barnhart and welcomes aboard Captain Gravely.

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The first JOUETT QDD-415 was built at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, and commissioned at Boston on 24 May 1912. She had a length overall of 293 feet and 11 inches, extreme beam, 27 feet, and normal displacement, 787 tons. Her designed speed was 27.5 knots, had a com- plement of 4 officers and 79 men, and her initial armament was five 3-inch guns and six 18-inch torpedo tubes. JOUETT joined the Atlantic Fleet Torpedo Flotilla and cruised along the eastern seaboard out of Norfolk, Newport, Boston and New York. She took up patrol in the Delaware Bay when the United States entered World War I, later ex- tending her cruising grounds to areas of search off the east coast. In 1917, she was an escort for a convoy carry- ing American Expeditionary Forces to St. Nazaire, France. After the war, JOUETT was decommissioned. She was loaned to the United States Coast Guard in 1924 for cutter operations until 1931. JOUETT was struck from the Navy list on 5 July 1934, and was sold for scrapping on August 1934. The second JOUETT QDD-3961 was also built by Bath Iron Works and was commissioned on 25 January 1939. She had a length overall of 390 feet and ll inches, extreme beam of 36 feet and 11 inches, and a normal displacement of 2130 tons. JOUETT had a complement of 10 officers and 225 enlisted men and an initial armament of eight 5-inch guns, two 50!63.8 mm anti-aircraft guns and nine 21-inch torpedo tubes. JOUETT operated with both Atlantic and Pacific Fleets until the outbreak of World War II. She was in Port of Spain, Trinidad, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. She continued operations with the FOURTH Fleet in meet- ing the German U-boat and raider menace in the central Atlantic. JOUETT drove off a U-boat which was tracking the oiler KENNEBEC in March 1942. On 9 May 1942, she depth-charged a U-boat off French Guiana. Two weeks later JOUETTdrove another U-boat under, thus allowing the fleet oiler PATOKA to escape. On the morning of 4 January 1944, JOUETT and the cruiser OMAHA intercepted and sank with gunfire the 6026-ton German blockade runner SS RIO GRANDE. The next morning, the 7320-ton BURGENLAND was intercepted and sunk. This virtually ended the flow of materials from the Far East to Germany. I In June 1944, JOUETT escorted ships bringing rein- forcements for the Normandy landing and later served in the shore bombardment screen. After the war JOUETT entered the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and was decom- missioned there on 1 November 1945. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 28 November 1945, and she was scrapped the following Spring. I . I 1 .USS JOUETT KDLG-295 'was commissioned at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, on 3 De- cember 1966, under the command of Captain Robert Hayes. This JOUETT has an overall length of 547 feet, beam of 54 feet and 9 inches, and a displacement of 7900 tons. Her armament includes a twin TERRIERXASROC missile launcher, one 5-inch 54 caliber single gun mount, two 3-inch 50 caliber single gun mounts, two Mk 32 torpedo launchers, and the latest bow-mounted sonar, three di- mensional air search radar, and the computerized Navy Tactical Data System. In addition, she is configured to carry a helicopter. She has a complement of 23 officers and 373 men and a capability of carrying a staff of 22 officers and men. ' . A JOUETT is one of the nine ships in the DLG-26 class. This class of ships combines greater search capability QRADARXSONARJ, greater fire power Cmissilesfgunsfanti- submarine torpedoesl, and 'greater command facilities QNTDSX communicationsj than has ever been built into a warship of comparable size.

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Captain Gravely reads his orders and assumes corn mand of JOUETT. Captain Gravely talks with the highest ranking guest, Rear Admiral Esch, Commander Cruiser Destroyer Flotilla Eleven. '