USS Hunt (DD-194)

USS Hunt (DD-194) in 1920
History
United States
Namesake:	William H. Hunt
Builder:	Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company
Laid down:	20 August 1918
Launched:	14 February 1920
Commissioned:	30 September 1920
Decommissioned:	11 August 1922
Fate:	Transferred to USCG, 13 September 1930
United States
Name:	USCGD Hunt (CG-18)
Acquired:	13 September 1930
Commissioned:	8 October 1930
Decommissioned:	28 May 1934
Fate:	Returned to USN, 28 May 1934
United States
Acquired:	28 May 1934
Commissioned:	December 1939
Decommissioned:	8 October 1940
Struck:	8 January 1941
Fate:	Transferred to U.K., 8 October 1940
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Broadway (H90)
Acquired:	8 October 1940
Commissioned:	8 October 1940
Fate:	scrapped in 1947
General characteristics
Class and type:	Clemson-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,215 tons
Length:	314 ft 4 in (95.8 m)
Beam:	31 ft 9 in (9.7 m)
Draft:	9 ft 4 in (2.8 m)
Propulsion:	26,500 shp (20 MW); geared turbines, 2 screws
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h)
Range:	4,900 nmi (9,100 km)   @ 15 kt
Complement:	101 officers and enlisted
Armament:	4 × 4 in/50 (102 mm) guns, 1 × 3 in/23 (76 mm) gun, 12 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes.

USS Hunt (DD-194) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She served in the United States Coast Guard, as USCGD Hunt (CG-18). She was later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Broadway (H90).

The first Navy ship named after Secretary of the Navy William H. Hunt (1823–1884), Hunt was launched by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, 14 February 1920; sponsored by Miss Virginia Livingston Hunt; and commissioned 30 September 1920, Lieutenant Roswell H. Blair in command.

After shakedown, Hunt participated in training and readiness exercises with the Atlantic Fleet and conducted torpedo trials on the range out of Newport, Rhode Island. She shifted her base of operations to Charleston, South Carolina, 3 December 1920. Sailing from Charleston Harbor 29 May 1922, she entered the Philadelphia Navy Yard 6 June and decommissioned there 11 August 1922.

From 13 September 1930 to 28 May 1934 the U.S. Coast Guard had custody of the ship. Hunt served as part of the Rum Patrol.

After being recommissioned at Philadelphia, Hunt departed on 26 January 1940 for Neutrality patrol in the Caribbean Sea. She left Panama Canal 3 April to escort submarine Searaven to Cape Canaveral and then engaged in gunnery practice in Cuban waters en route to Norfolk, Virginia arriving 17 April 1940. The next few months were devoted to maneuvers in Chesapeake Bay and training cruises down the eastern seaboard.