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USS Harry E. Hubbard (DD-748), was an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer of the United States Navy.
Hubbard Ship Store . USS Harry E. Hubbard (DD-748) received eight battle stars for World War II and Korea and six battle stars and the Navy Unit Commendation for operations off Vietnam
14 lip 2015 · Harry E. Hubbard shared in the Navy Unit Commendation awarded Task Group 77.5 for support operations in the Gulf of Tonkin 2 to 5 August 1964. She also received six battle stars for World War...
Harry E. Hubbard headed for the Western Pacific in the spring of 1967 where more action against aggressors in Southeast Asia awaited her. She also received six battle stars for World War II and Korean service.
The destroyer honors the late Commander Harry Ensor Hubbard, USN, hero of the Naval Campaign in the Solomon’s and the commander of the destroyer that escorted the flattop “Hornet” during the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, slid down the ways at Bethlehem Steel Company’s Staten Island Yards today on 24 March 1944.
Named in honor of Commander Harry E. Hubbard, USN who was killed in the Solomon Islands Campaign while commanding U.S.S. MEREDITH, and built by the Bethlehem Steel Company of Staten Island, U.S.S. HARRY E. HUBBARD (DD 748) was commissioned 22 July 1944 at the Navy Yard, New York.
Beam: 40'10". Draft: 15'8". Speed: 35 knots. Armament: 6 5"/38, 2x5 21" torpedo tubes. Complement: 345. High-pressure super-heated boilers, geared turbines with twin screws, 60,000 h.p. Built at Bethlehem Steel, Staten Island and commissioned 22 July 1944.
