USS Hyman DD732
photo courtesy of Dave Lacey
| Navy | US Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | Sumner |
| Pennant | DD 732 |
| Built by | Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.) |
| Laid down | 22 Nov 1943 |
| Launched | 8 Apr 1944 |
| Commissioned | 16 Jun 1944 |
| Decommissioned | unknown date. |
| History | 5 April, led
a search group hunting a reported midget submarine. Next day the ship was
attacked in company with other picket and patrol ships west of Ie Shima by
Japanese suicide attacks.Hyman downed several before a damaged
aircraft crashed near her torpedo tubes, its engine exploded on the main
deck, leaving twelve of her men killed
and over forty wounded. Stricken 16 November 1969. Sold 13 October 1970 and broken up for scrap. |
