USS Hull (DD-7)
USS Hull (DD-7) dressed with flags, while at anchor on 2 May 1907.
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| Name: | Hull |
| Namesake: | Commodore Isaac Hull awarded Congressional Gold Medal |
| Builder: | Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware |
| Laid down: | 22 February 1899 |
| Launched: | 21 June 1902 |
| Sponsored by: | Miss Mabel Hull, a descendant of Commodore Hull |
| Commissioned: | 20 May 1903 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 July 1919 |
| Struck: | 15 September 1919 |
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| Fate: | sold January 3, 1920 to Joseph G. Hitner, Philadelphia |
| Status: | broken up for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Hopkins-class destroyer sub-class of Bainbridge-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 408 long tons (415 t) (standard) |
| Length: | 248 ft 8 in (75.79 m) (oa) |
| Beam: | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
| Installed power: | 7,200 shp (5,400 kW) |
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| Speed: | 29 kn (33 mph; 54 km/h) |
| Complement: | 73 officers and enlisted |
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USS Hull (DD-7) was a Hopkins-class destroyer, which was a sub-class of the Bainbridge-class destroyer, in the United States Navy, the second ship named for Commodore Isaac Hull.
Hull was launched by Harlan & Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware, on 21 June 1902; sponsored by Miss Mabel Hull, a descendant of Commodore Hull; and commissioned on 20 May 1903, Lieutenant Samuel Robison in command.
During her first two years of service, Hull engaged in patrol and training maneuvers off Newport and in Chesapeake Bay. After a cruise to the Caribbean January–April 1905, she returned to League Island, Pennsylvania, where she decommissioned on 30 September.
Hull recommissioned on 14 November 1906 at Philadelphia, and took part in winter exercises with fleet units in Cuban waters. After operations off Newport, the ship returned to Norfolk in October 1907 to prepare for the voyage of the "Great White Fleet". Hull sailed as an escort vessel on 2 December and after stopping at many South American and Central American ports on the voyage around South America with the great battleships, arrived San Diego on 28 April 1907. Hull was detached on the west coast, and the Great White Fleet continued on its cruise, showing the flag around the world. The destroyer remained in the vicinity of San Francisco until departing on 24 August 1908 for a cruise to the South Pacific. She took part in various exercises in Hawaiian and Samoan waters before returning to San Diego in November.
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