|
USS John D. Ford
DD 228 (Clemson Class)
© Navsource
Builder: Cramp, Philadelphia
Laid Down: November 11, 1919
Launched: September 2, 1920
Commissioned: December 30, 1920
Decommissioned: November 2, 1945
Fate: Sold 9/30/47 and broken up
|
We are seeking information on the USS John D. Ford and her crews.
Files and photos may be E-mailed to us and we will incorporate them into these pages.
The E-mail:
Subject: DD 228 John D Ford
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004
From:
George Peat
Sir,I am about to start on a 1/72nd scale Radio control
model of the USS John D Ford as she was when first
commissioned and there is one part which is unclear on the
drawings and photographs that I have of her and that is
concerning the signal lights on the fore mast. What
colour are these lights?
Thank you,
George Peat
BEM [Secretary TF72/UK]
31, Mc Neill Terrace,
Loanhead,
Midlothian EH20-9JU
tele 0131-448-2657
Fax 0131-440-1939
E-mail:
gpeat@globalnet.co.uk
Hi George,
I'm stumped. I suspect if it is a masthead light,
those are always white.
Fair winds,
Mark Roberts
Destroyers Online
Mark,
These are the signal lights on the yard arm of the
foremast that I was meaning. Mast head lights I know
are white/clear, I suspect that they will also be
clear.
Some of the member of destroyers on line may know for
certain
Thanks,
George Peat
BEM [Secretary TF72/UK]
31, Mc Neill Terrace,
Loanhead,
Midlothian EH20-9JU
tele 0131-448-2657
Fax 0131-440-1939
E-mail:
gpeat@globalnet.co.uk
|
Happened to stumble across your website while looking for information about a
Destroyer my dad served on in the South Pacific sometime during 1936-1939.
My brother recently sent me a photo of the of the ship from somewhere. I am
trying to get more information from him. Apparently he has one photo with
the crews names on the reverse (he didn't sent that info. yet.)
Our father, Kenneth A. Peyton, is apparently along the top rail, in the middle,
the one with black gloves on the rail.
Sincerely, Ron Peyton
|
Exececutive officer (left) and Dr. Gage
More Photo's:
Photo 002
John Ashton & Pete Vallet, 1944
Photo 003
Officers (in Dry-Dock)
Photo 004
Personnel inspection, Deck Div (June, 1945)
Photo 005
Captain & Exec (in Dry-Dock)
Photo 006
Captain Patterson & Officers, 1945
Photo 007
Engineers (1944-45): Vallet,
Trumbo, Carleo, McAfee, Mate, Avery & Cox
Photo 009
Supplies and Pay . . . . .
Photo 010
Shellback initiation: "King Neptune" and the "Queen"!
Photo 011
Personnel inspection (June, 1945)
Photo 012
Personnel inspection, Gunnery Div (June, 1945)
Photo 013
Shellback initiation: Looks like the garbage run . . .
Photo 014
Shellback initiation: Officer Stello
Photo 015
Shellback initiation: Haircuts (?) for the Wogs
Photo 016
Shellback initiation: (Looks like the Court)
Photo 017
Officer Albert Stello, Gunnery, 1944
Photo 018
George Sturm (left) and Pete Vallet
Photo 019
Captain Watkins and the Officers, 1944
Photo 020
Personnel inspection, Communications Div (June, 1945)
Photo 022
Dry-Dock: Sonar destroyed by seas
Photo 023
USS John D. Ford, 1944
Photo 025
Herman Deiters & shipmates, at stern of ship.
Contributed by: Herman L. Deiters
Photo 026
Bridge
Contributed by: Herman L. Deiters
|
Many Thanks to
Pete Vallet
Engineering, USS John D. Ford (DD 228)
|
|
