USS Hubbard
Service
- as USS Hubbard6 March 1944 — 15 March 1946545 days of the war
- Name
- USS Hubbard
- Namesake
- Joseph C. Hubbard
- Builder
- Charleston Navy Yard
- Ordered
- 1942
- Laid down
- 11 August 1943
- Launched
- 11 November 1943
- Commissioned
- 6 March 1944
- Decommissioned
- 15 March 1946
- Struck
- 1 May 1966
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 1 July 1966 (1966)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,740 long tons (1,768 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Range
- 3,700 nmi (6,852 km)
- Complement
- 213
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Hubbard was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy. She was named for Joseph C. Hubbard. Her keel was laid at Charleston Navy Yard on 11 August 1943. Launched on 11 November 1943, she entered service on 6 March 1944.
Her class ran to 98 ships. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 1,740 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 23 knots, and she carried a complement of 213. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 545 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 15 March 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 May 1966.
She was broken up for scrap on 1 July 1966.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × boilers
- General Electric turbo-electric drive
- 12000 shp
- 2 × solid manganese-bronze 3600 lb 3-bladed propellers, 8 ft diameter, 7 ft pitch
- 2 × rudders
- 359 tons fuel oil
- Armament
- 3 × 3"/50 caliber guns
- 1 × quad 1.1"/75 caliber gun
- 8 × single 20 mm guns
- 1 × triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
- 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- HMS Bentinck (K314)
- HMS Bligh
- HMS Byron
- HMS Calder (K349)
- HMS Conn
- HMS Cosby
- HMS Dakins
- HMS Duff (K352)
- HMS Ekins
- HMS Fitzroy (K553)
- HMS Halsted (K556)
- HMS Hargood (K582)
- HMS Holmes (K581)
- HMS Hotham (K583)
- HMS Redmill (K554)
- HMS Retalick
- HMS Riou
- HMS Rowley
- HMS Rupert (K561)
- HMS Rutherford
- HMS Seymour (K563)
- HMS Spragge (K572)
- HMS Stockham
- HMS Thornborough
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Hubbard on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo NH 83292 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons