USS Hughes DD410
| 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 |
| Loss position | |
| 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. |
