USS Hobby
Service
- as USS Hobby (DD-610)18 November 1942 — 1 February 19461,019 days of the war
- Name
- USS Hobby
- Namesake
- James H. Hobby
- Builder
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California
- Launched
- 4 June 1942
- Commissioned
- 18 November 1942
- Decommissioned
- 1 February 1946
- Struck
- 1 July 1971
- Fate
- Sunk in exercise, 1 June 1972 (1972)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,620 long tons (1,646 t)
- Length
- 106.07 m (348 ft)
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 5.18 m (17 ft)
- Speed
- 38 knots (70.4 km/h, 43.7 mph)
- Complement
- 259
- Main gun
- 20 mm (0.8 in)
USS Hobby was a Benson-class destroyer, operated by the United States Navy. The ship was named after James H. Hobby. She was built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California. Launched on 4 June 1942, she entered service on 18 November 1942.
She was one of 30 ships of her class. The class followed the Sims-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Gleaves-class destroyer.
Displacement was 1,620 long tons. She measured 106.1 m (348 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 38 knots, and she carried a complement of 259.
Her main battery was four 20 mm (0.8 in) guns.
She was in commission for 1,019 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 1 February 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 July 1971.
She was sunk on 1 June 1972. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 4 × 5-inch 38 caliber guns
- 4 × 20 mm guns
- 5 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Sister ships
- USS Bailey (DD-492)
- USS Bancroft (DD-598)
- USS Barton (DD-599)
- USS Benson
- USS Boyle
- USS Caldwell (DD-605)
- USS Champlin (DD-601)
- USS Charles F. Hughes
- USS Coghlan (DD-606)
- USS Farenholt (DD-491)
- USS Frazier
- USS Gansevoort
- USS Gillespie
- USS Hilary P. Jones
- USS Kalk (DD-611)
- USS Kendrick
- USS Laffey (DD-459)
- USS Lansdale (DD-426)
- USS Laub (DD-613)
- USS MacKenzie (DD-614)
- USS Madison (DD-425)
- USS Mayo
- USS McLanahan (DD-615)
- USS Meade (DD-602)
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Hobby on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: USN — Official U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-40615 available at Destroyerhistory.org — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons