All
Hands,
The October field day saw us crew the ship with Massachusetts Maritime
Academy students, Navy veterans, and our large contingent of civilian
enthusiasts. We had 11 destroyer veterans aboard joined by our
large youth movement.
The team accomplished a lot of projects and upkeep on our veteran
destroyer with both fresh paint and continued preservation efforts of
never restored areas internally; including preservation of spaces and
equipment on the third platform. We cannot thank the following
people enough for their dedication and support:
Attendees:
Bill Hamilton (USS Barry DD933)
McKayla Angelini
Rich Angelini (NAVSEA)
Mike Angelini (USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr DD850)
Wayne White (USS Charles Ware DD865)
Mike Waggoner (USS Stickell DD888)
John Waggoner (USS Stickell DD888)
Ken Handley (USS Stickell DD888)
Bob Washburn (USS William R. Rush DD714)
Sean Hernandez
Joe Hernandez
Sue Howard
John Morrison
Chris Morrison
Chris’s friend
Ted Hayes
Jim Gay
Chris Keating
Paul Rousseau (USS Biddle)
Lee Levesque
Nate Levesque (USMC)
Dave Levesque (USN SeaBees)
Fred Pikula (USS Samuel B. Roberts DD823)
Fred Pikula Jr.
Lee Jones (USS Stormes DD780)
Jacob Deschamps
Jonathan Deschamps
Alex Horton
Nik Rodriguez
Jim Mitcheson
Our Mass Maritime Shipmates:
Colin Desruisseaux (MMA)
Chloe Plank
Hunter Shields
Jackson Simone
Thomas Solano
Anthony Petrillo
Shawn Smirnov
Jeremy Taylor
Kayla Pieroni
Heather Gaughan
Nathan Peterson
Eryk Michalowski
James Beckman
Nolan Butler
Bryce Conto
Samuel Confalone
Colman Washburn
Marcus Greuling
Quentin Cox
Kevin Bryan
Brendan Bertone
Samuel Haliulin
Matthew Senna
Joseph Walls
Jacob Philbrook
Gavin Hamilton
Catherine O’brien
Sara Hemminger
Jack Gerrior
Daniel Calabrese
William Breadmore
Yazan Aldakhlallah
Jack Alanis
Noah Naworski
Jacob Guthrie
Cameron Craveiro
Nathan Bui
Anna Kane
Matthew Wong
Sager Florio
Julian Gilmartin
Brian Mcintyre
Ryan Mastro
Robert Nolan
Jacob Neilsen
Joshua Fitzler
Total for the Week: 76 crewmembers.
Work Accomplished:
Restoration (including painting):
Starboard side Main Deck
1. Removed and reworked FWD fan
room door. Primed and painted same.
2. Prepped, primed, and painted
bulkhead from ASROC deck ladder to FWD expansion joint.
Port side Main deck
1. Prep, prime, and painted
overhead under Torpedo deck.
2. Prep, prime, painted deck
stanchions to Torpedo deck
3. Primed and painted bulkhead
forward of breakwater
4. Prep, primed, and painted after
main deck outside ship store
ASROC Deck
1. Prep, prime, paint ASROC rail
locker door
2. Display highline chair on top of
ASROC Control Station
3. Prep, prime, paint ASROC deck
blast shield
4. Welded metal plate over hole on
deck near FWD expansion joint.
5. Prep, prime, paint after
bulkheads (port and stbd) of FWD deckhouse on ASROC deck
6. Prep, prime, paint ASROC power
supply locker
7. Prep, prime, paint stanchion on
ASROC deck
8. Put ASROC test sets in ASROC
Control station for display
Fantail
1. Prep, prime, and touchup areas
on fantail
2. Paint gunnels as needed
3. Removed all items from MT52 in
preparation for restoration
4. Reworked and fabricated supports
to remount ship’s flagstaff. Welded same in and fixed damaged
angle supports.
Foc’sle
1. Prep, primed, painted gunnels
and select deck areas aft of MT51
2. Prep, primed, painted gunnels
and deck area forward of MT 51
DASH Hangar
1. Painted DASH deck where primed
previously.
2. Prep, primed, and painted
forward DASH hangar visitor vestibule.
3. Painted top of the DASH Hangar
work bench
4. Removed unnecessary items and placed
historic items for display.
Anchor Windlass
1. Continuation of Top Coating
Anchor Windlass Equipment Room.
B3 After Fireroom
1. Stripped stainless area of Boiler 3
and 4 of paint that was incorrectly placed there by volunteers years
ago
2. Relamped all of B3, especially over
the stbd shaft
3. Painted stbd shaft cover red.
4. Cleanup and painted pump valves
Aluminum
5. Painted lower level soot blowers
Aluminum
6. Removed spare parts and item to off
ship stowage
General Restoration and Maintenance tasks:
1. Installation of USS Steinaker DD863
handling room wheels in MT52 upper handling room.
2. General cleanup initiation of Burke
Destroyermens museum
3. Install pressure gauge in MT 52 upper
handling room
4. Place inflatable life jackets in MT52
handling room to replicate cruise book photos.
5. Painted all bulkheads in SONAR Motor
Generator Room white.
6. Major prep, rust converter, and prime
effort of machinery, machinery foundations, deck, and lower bulkheads
of Refer deck Machinery Space.
7. Complete prep and prime of SONAR Motor
Generator room under Mess Decks.
8. Manned the paint locker and organized
supplies for the field day
9. Cooked meals for a hungry crew
10. Stowed searchlights for winter
11. Provide tours to visitors.
12. Placement of USS Newman K. Perry DD883 Dummy load cables in
Radar Transmitter room for display.
13. Rope work on w/t door handles by the radio room, the sign in
the transmitter room, in engine room, wrapping mooring lines, and
giving out monkey fist key chains to volunteers.
Thank you for your continued interest and support in USS Joseph P.
Kennedy Jr DD850, a destroyer proudly representing the Vietnam and Cold
War Navy.
History and this ship depend on You! Please consider joining the effort
at one of our volunteer activities.
Our next big field day is May 16-19 2019.
Fair winds and following seas,
Rich Angelini
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