USS Hughes  DD410

Casualty List

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.