7027 US NAVY DESTROYER HULL DD-350

The USS Hull (DD-350) was an American destroyer, the keel of which was laid in March 1933, launched in January 1934, and was completely completed in January 1935. The total length of the ship at the time of launching was 104 m, width 10.44 m, with a displacement of about 1,400 tons. The maximum speed was up to 36 knots. At the time of the launch, the unit was armed with: 5 127 mm guns, 4 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine guns and 8 533 mm torpedo tubes. In the course of World War II, the weapons were subject to changes - especially anti-aircraft weapons were strengthened. USS Hull (DD-350) was one of eight Farragut-class destroyers - America's first-class destroyers fully built after the end of the Great War. In relation to the so-called The "four-tailed boats" was longer, had better seafaring, its artillery armament was strengthened, and the engine room and, in fact, the entire propulsion system were significantly changed. On the other hand, much too weak anti-aircraft armament was used, a drawback that was fixed in the course of subsequent modernizations carried out during World War II. USS Hull (DD-350) was built at the New York Navy Yard and operated primarily in the Pacific before the outbreak of the war. He was at the Pearl Harbor base during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. The unit later participated in the early stages of the struggle on Guadalcanal (August 1942), and from February 1943 operated in the Aleutian region. At the end of 1943, USS Hull (DD-350) returned to the South Pacific, participating in the landing on Saipan and the Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 1944). The unit sank as a result of entering typhoon Cobra on December 18, 1944.