USS Hull (DD-945)
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 United States
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| Namesake: | Isaac Hull |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 12 September 1956 |
| Launched: | 10 August 1957 |
| Acquired: | 25 June 1958 |
| Commissioned: | 3 July 1958 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 July 1983 |
| Struck: | 15 November 1983 |
| Fate: | Sunk as a weapons test platform, 7 April 1998 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Forrest Sherman class destroyer |
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| Length: | 407 ft (124 m) waterline, 418 ft (127 m) overall. |
| Beam: | 45 ft (14 m) |
| Draft: | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 x 1,200 psi (8.3 MPa) Babcock & Wilcox boilers w/Bailey 'Iowa type' ACC, General Electric steam turbines; 70,000 shp (52 MW); 2 x shafts. |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 15 officers, 218 enlisted. |
| Armament: | 3 × 5 in (127 mm) 54 calibre dual purpose Mk 42 guns; 4 × 3 in (76 mm) 50 calibre Mark 33 anti-aircraft guns; 2 × mark 10/11 Hedgehogs; 6 × 12.75 in (324 mm) Mark 32 torpedo tubes. |
USS Hull (DD-945), named for Commodore Isaac Hull USN (1773 to 1843), was a Forrest Sherman class destroyer built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine. Laid down on 12 September 1956 and launched 10 August 1957, by Mrs. Albert G. Mumma.
She was commissioned 3 July 1958 and transited the Panama Canal a few months later to begin a long career with the Pacific Fleet. Between April and August 1959 Hull conducted the first of her fifteen deployments to serve with the Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. She made three more cruises in that area in 1960, 1961–1962 and 1963-1964. During October and November 1962 the destroyer escorted Pacific-based amphibious forces to the Panama Canal Zone as part of the US Navy's Cuban Missile Crisis operations. Hull's 1965 Seventh Fleet tour was the first of six Vietnam War deployments, during which she fired tens of thousands of five-inch shells in support of forces ashore and helped rescue several downed U.S. aviators. Additionally, Hull served as plane guard for carriers on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, participated in Operation Sea Dragon operations, and patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out Naval Gunfire Support missions during the Vietnam War.
Hull made her eleventh WestPac cruise in 1973, after the direct U.S. role in the Vietnam War had ended.
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