USS Hughes DD410
Navy | US Navy |
Type | Destroyer |
Class | Sims |
Pennant | DD 410 |
Built by | Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.) |
Laid down | 15 Sep 1937 |
Launched | 17 Jun 1939 |
Commissioned | 21 September 1939 |
Decommissioned | 28 August 1946 |
History | |
Was hit by a kamikaze on 10 December 1944. Badly damaged with one engine room demolished and much of her other machinery destroyed, Hughes was towed to San Pedro Bay, Leyte, where, after temporary repairs, she departed for Humboldt Bay, New Guinea on 19 December en route to Pearl Harbor, where she arrived on 23 January 1945. Following more repairs, she sailed for San Francisco, arriving San Francisco Naval Shipyard on 2 February. Hughes remained there for the next 3 months undergoing extensive overhaul. | |
Damaged in
the atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in July 1946. Sunk as target 16 October 1948. Stricken 26 November 1948. |