USS Dewey Dlg-14
Commissioning
7 December 1959
I now have a copy of the 7 December 1959 commissioning Proghram thanks to Ray Truitt. Look for it upcoming on a new tumb nail age.
Program. We still however are looking for de-commissioning proghrams from 1969, Re-Commissioning 1971 and decommissioning 1992. With list of ships company members for those occasions.
Original plank owners of DLG-14
The original scan I received was good enough to read with good eyes.
But for posting on the web it needed Improvement. So I retyped it so if there are errors, you can blame me.However I typed it so those of us with failing eyesight can see it better. If however I error, please provide Corrections.
USS Dewey first C.O.
COMMANDER, E. R. ZUMWALT, Jr., U.S.N.
The
Worlds First Guided Missile Destroyer
Joins the fleet, DLG-14
Test firing terrier Missiles
This photo was part of early photo either from bath or the missile builder. It wound up as a photo in the ships first cruise book. Maybe because the did not want to display real BT3 missile. Its believed this is a terrier missile test fire but no sure from what ship.
Headed for first homeport, Norfolk, Va.
I would document photographs of before and after each overhaul to show Changes throughout its life. The biggest change I was part of was the 1966 overhaul. Where there were changes topside and a addition of a flight deck to the fantail.
After decommissioning in 1969 for repairs from a boiler explosion Dewey had a second commissioning ceremony in Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. If You have a program from the ceremony in P.S.N.S.Y. please submit and we will work on a second commissioning and plank owners page.
Dewey would later be homeported in Newport, R.I., Charleston, S.C. and Mayport, Florida.