WhatsNew:
Feb 2, 2012
New Members
Stanley Bryn ET S1c 45 - 46
John P (jack) Cress Mid'n 3/C 63
Richard Dainty FN 48 - 50
William Gillespie LTJG 68 -69
John Metroka FN 58 - 60
Claude Minton SN 1/C 44 - 45
Roy Pruitt SN 47
Robert H Snyder III BT3 68 - 70
Vernon C Spires RD2 67 - 69
Ron Suprenant EM3 55 - 57
Charles Tumey ET 60 - 63
Newsletter will be sent out in February 2012.
2012 Reunion
Forms are in the February 2012 newsletter for this year's reunion in Jachsonville FL.
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Sick Call:
If you know of any of our shipmates that are sick or in the hospital; please contact Bob Miller or Len Budzynski
February 2, 2012
Jim Brown
Joe Cayea
Harriett Goodmuth
Kate Johnson
Gus Mark
Larry Requarth
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Taps:
If you know of any of our shipmates or family members that passed away; please contact Bob Miller or Len Budzynski.
February 2, 2012
John Demyan, Served 1943 - 1945
Frederick Hugh Hart, Served 1950 - 1952
Corwin (Cork) D Minick, Served 1948 - 1952
Seymour C Sanhaus, Served 1943
David John Sarver, Served 1955 - 1956
Richard Schwartz, Served 1958 - 1961
Alice Thatcher, wife of Don Thatcher
Allen M Sumner Class Destroyer
The John W Weeks was one of 70 Allen M Sumner class destroyers commissioned during World War Two and had the following characteristic.
General Characteristics
- 2200 Tons Standard
- 3515 Tons Full Ooad
- Length 376 ft 6 in
- Beam 40 ft
- Draught 15 ft 9 in
- Two shaft geared stream turgines (4 boilers) 60,000 SHP
- Speed 34 knots
Crew Complements
- 21 Officers
- 314 Enlisted Men
Armament 1944
- Three Twin 5 inch 38 cal mounts (15 rounds per minute. 54 pound projectile, 18000 yd range)
- Twelve, 40mm AA guns(160 rounds per minute, 2800 yd range)
- Eleven 20mm AA guns (450 rounds per minute 4000 yd range)
- Ten, 21 inch torpedo tubes (2115 pound torpedo, 4500 yd range, 46 knots, 1100 pounds torpex)
Important Historical Events
- Keel laid 17 January 1944 Federal Shipbuilding, Kearney, NJ.
- Launched 21 May 1944 Federal Shipbuilding.
- Commissioned 21 July Brooklyn Navy Yard.
- Inactivated 28 April 1946.
- Reactivated approximately 17 May 1947.
- Decommissioned 31 May 1950.
- Recommissioned 24 October 1950
- Stricken from Navy list 12 August 1970.
- Sunk as target Novermber 1970 in 1300 fathoms at 37-10.9N, 73-45.6W.
