Here is the news on our reunion scheduled Sept 18-21 at Hampton Inn &
Suites in Williamsburg, VA. located at 911 Capital Landing Rd Williamsburg, VA
23185. Phone 1-866-349-8121.
This is a relatively new hotel. A hot buffet breakfast is included in the rates. No Smoking standard rooms with 2 queen beds are $85/night plus taxes. No Smoking studio rooms with 2 queen beds or 1 king bed are $99/night plus taxes. These rates will be good a couple days before and after the actual dates of the reunion.
When you call, be sure to mention you are with the Kirkpatrick group to get these rates.
Please let either Harmon Meeker or Pat King know if you are coming as soon as possible so further plans for a banquet and other activities can be made. Since most of you live in the eastern part of the country this is an ideal place for the reunion.
 
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irkpatrick DER 318 |
The USS Kirkpatrick DER 318
Laid down by Consolidated Steel, Orange, Texas on March 15, 1943 and
Launched June 5, 1943.
Commissioned October 23, 1943
In Honor of Chaplain Thomas Leroy Kirkpatrick who died on the USS Arizona.
Decommissioned May 1, 1946.Reclassified As Radar Picket Ship USS Kirkpatrick DER 318 on October 1, 1951.
Recommissioned February 23, 1952.
Decommissioned in Philadelphia June 24, 1960 and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.
Stricken from the United States Navy Register on August 1, 1974.
Sold by DRMS (Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service) March 12, 1975 for scrap.
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