USS Hull, a 1395-ton Farragut class destroyer built by the New York Navy Yard, was commissioned in January 1935. She made a shakedown cruise to the western coast of Europe in mid-year and transited the Panama Canal to take station in the Pacific in October. From then until 1939, Hull participated in U.S. Fleet exercises and training operations, steaming north to Alaska and west to Hawaii on occasion. Her base was shifted to Pearl Harbor in October 1939. She was moored there during the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack that opened the Pacific War.
During the war's first months Hull escorted the aircraft carrier Lexington in the South Pacific and carried out convoy escort missions between the U.S. West Coast and Hawaii. In August 1942 she took part in the invasion of Guadalcanal and Tulagi and was involved in the emerging Guadalcanal Campaign over the next two months. Hull served as a battleship escort in the South Pacific in late 1942 and early 1943. In April 1943 she went to the North Pacific, where she participated in the Kiska landings in August. The destroyer then returned to the much warmer Central Pacific to take part in raids on Japanese-held islands and, during November 1943, in the Gilberts Campaign.
Hull's next combat operation was the invasion of the Marshall Islands in late January and February 1944. Over the next several months she was a participant in raids on enemy bases in the Marshalls and Carolines, the Saipan and Guam invasions and the Battle of the Philippine Sea. A West Coast shipyard overhaul occupied her during August-October 1944. She then steamed across the Pacific, joining the Third Fleet's underway logistics forces in November. When her fueling group encountered a typhoon off the Philippines on 18 December 1944, Hull was overwhelmed by the violent winds and seas, capsized and sank. The tragedy took the lives of more than two hundred men, about three-quarters of her crew.
USS Hull was named in honor of Commodore Isaac Hull (1773-1843), a signficant Naval commander during and after the War of 1812.
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Photo #: NH 61892 USS Hull (DD-350) Off the New York Navy Yard, 18 April 1935. Image from the New York Naval Shipyard Collection, 1966. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 42KB; 740 x 575 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 61591 USS Hull (DD-350) Alongside the dock at St. Nazaire, France, in 1935. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 500 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 61891 USS Hull (DD-350) Anchored at Funchal, Madeira, on 1 June 1935. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 490 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 61592 USS Hull (DD-350) Operating with an airplane, circa 1935-1936. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 605 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 67697 USS Hull (DD-350) Moored in a harbor, circa 1935-1937. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 520 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 61890 USS Hull (DD-350) Heavily retouched photograph of the ship underway, circa 1935-1937. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 490 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 42541 USS Hull (DD-350) Aproaching an anchorage in the lower end of Iliuliuk Bay, in the Aleutian Islands, 27 April 1937. Photographed from USS Dewey (DD-349). U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 595 pixels |
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Photo #: 19-N-29840 USS Hull (DD-350) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 20 April 1942. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 600 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-38034 USS Hull (DD-350) Preparing to refuel at sea, 8 January 1943 Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-321647 USS Hull (DD-350) Underway at sea, May 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-376091 USS Hull (DD-350) At sea in May 1944, with an aircraft carrier and other ships in the distance. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 600 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-72792 USS Hull (DD-350) Underway in the vicinity of the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, 10 October 1944. She is wearing camouflage Measure 31, Design 6d. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 125KB; 740 x 595 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Page made 22 January 2003
Coding updated 19 December 2010