Shipmates and visitors,
Our site is dedicated to all the men who served on all the ships named after Captain James Lawrence.
In the spring we changed the site and began using the red, white, blue, and gray template. This served our purpose until we added seven pages to the site. The template we were using was older and wouldn't self adjust as the tabs were added. This caused issues with the lettering in the header. Therefore over the summer months we will be changing the template and rebuilding the site off line to give the site a new look and to eliminate the problems we were having. We will not be making anymore updates to the present site.
We do have a few issues that are going to take priority over the website. The first is at the 2007 Reunion in Washington, DC, we went to the National Archives and obtained the ship's roster from commissioning until 1971. We have exhausted all the free people search sites to find our shipmates. We are going to subscribe to a pay site and locate as many of our shipmates as possible. Then we plan on sending out the 2008 Newsletter to everyone. Then we will get to the web site. All of this will have to be squeezed around some home remodeling projects that have been put off one too many times.
We still will be looking for your contributions to help us build this site. Several shipmates have already contributed as you can see when you visit the other pages of the site. If you have any pictures, ship history, or really good sea storys please forward them to scuttlebutt@usslawrence.com
Scroll down for a list of our ships and the Adams Class Veterans Associations (ACVA) efforts to save the USS Charles F. Adams, DDG-2 as a museum ship to the Adams Class of DDG's.
The 2009 USS Lawrence Associations Reunion will be held in Charlestown, SC. Dates of the reunion will be during the third or fourth week in June of 2009. The week picked will depend on the best hotel deal that we can arrange for our shipmates.
The 2010 Reunion will be held in June in Boston, MA
The 2011 Reunion will be held in June in Jacksonville, FL. on board the USS Charles F Adams DDG2, the Museum Ship honoring all men who served on Adams Class DDG's. In the event the museum is not open at that time, we will change this to another location until we can hold the reunion aboard the ship.
WIN! WIN!
A FREE REUNION FOR 2!
For every reunion we offer the chance for one lucky shipmate and their spouse or guest to have a free reunion. The following will be paid for: hotel room for actual dates of the reunion ( any extra days are at the negotiated nightly rate at your expense), all tours, Welcome Reception, Farewell Banquet, and your registration fees. Travel to and from the reunion, any meals not covered in the tours, and extra expenses are your responsability. Due to the economy many hotels are cutting back on the amount of "free" things they give the reunion groups. Since we started this raffle to win a free reunion, we have been getting one free night for every 20 nights our group books. This covers the cost of the free room. Many properties in the hotel industry have changed their policy on free rooms to 1 free night for every 50 nights booked. We will continue to negotiate for a free night requiring less nights booked in order to offer the free room as part of the reunion raffle. In the event we cannot, the free room will no longer be offered as part of the reunion raffle as our group does not have the funds available to pay for this.
So how do you win????? It is easy!!!!!! There are several ways. The first is to join the USS Lawrence Association by paying the $10 yearly dues which gives you two free entries in the reunion raffle. Next, everytime you place an order from the ship's store you will receive one free entry. You may also buy raffle tickets for $5 each. For those of you that make donations to the Lawrence Association, we will give you 1 free entry for every $5 that you donate.
Each raffle ticket will contain a set of winning numbers based on the number of raffle tickets distributed. The numbers on those tickets will be picked using a random number generator. The 1st place winning number will be determined by using a state's 3 or 4 digit daily number from the evening New Years Eve drawing. The 2nd place prize will be determined using the same state's mid-day drawing on New Years Day. The 3rd place winner will be determined using the same state's evening drawing on New Years Day.
Congradulations to the 2008 Chicago Reunion winner John Cornwall, DDG-4, 1963.
DISCLAIMER: 1. In the event not all tickets are sold and the winning number is in that group of tickets, a random number generator will be used until a winner is determined. 2. There is no cash value to this prize. If you don't want it or cannot make it you will not get cash in its place. You can however offer it to a shipmate or friend that is going to the reunion, ask us to draw another winner using a random number generator, or ask us to hold a drawing at the reunion for $5 a ticket to determine a winner of those in attendance at the reunion. 3. You will be sent your raffle entires to your home address no later than a week before the raffle.
USS LAWRENCE (DDG-4)
USS LAWRENCE (DD-250)
USS LAWRENCE DESTROYER 8
US BRIG LAWRENCE
Use the "Our Fleet" tab at the top of the page to learn more about each ship.
A major effort is underway to save the first ever missile capable DDG, the "CHARLES F. ADAMS, DDG-2" as a floating museum that represents all 23 ships of the Adams Class DDG's. USS Lawrence, DDG-4 is part of the Adams Class of ships. As of today there is only one Adams DDG remaining, DDG-2. The Adams Class Veterans Association or ACVA, has taken the lead to find the Adams a new home and raise the needed funds to refurbish the ship. The ACVA has been able to find the Adams a "OLD HOME" in her former homeport of Jacksonville, FL. On March 31, 2008 an application for the ship was submitted to NAVSEA to begin the formal process that is required to obtain the ship. The ACVA needs your help in raising the $10 million in funds needed to complete the project so that we all can walk the decks of a Adams Class DDG again. If you have not donated to this project we encourage you to do so. Please go to the ACVA's website at the link below and find out how you can become a Plankowner and donate to the Adams Class Museum Project. You will also see a rendering of the Adams in her new berth and find out the current progress of the project.
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