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DD-342 / AVP-19 / AVD-6 Hulbert

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Yangtze Service Medal - American Defense Service Medal
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal
Clemson Class Destroyer:
  • Laid down, date unknown, as Hulbert (Destroyer # 342) at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA.
  • Launched, 28 June 1918
  • Reclassified DD-342 in the Navy's fleet-wide assignment of alphanumeric hull numbers, 17 July 1920
  • Commissioned USS Hulbert (DD-342), 27 October 1920, at Norfolk, VA.. LT. S. A. Maher in command
  • Decommissioned, 17 October 1934, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, laid up in reserve
  • Redesignated Seaplane Tender, Small AVP-19, converted at New York Navy Yard, circa 1939-40
  • Recommissioned as Sea Plane Tender, Destroyer USS Hulbert (AVD-6), 2 August 1940, at New York Navy Yard
  • During World War II Hulbert was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns/actions:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1940 Aleutians operation
    Attu occupation, May 1943

  • Reclassified Destroyer DD-342, 1 December 1943
  • Decommissioned, 2 November 1945, at Navy Yard Philadelphia, PA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping to Ship Shape, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. in October 1946
  • Hulbert earned two battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement; 1,215 t.
    Length; 314'4½"
    Beam; 31' "
    Draft; 9' 9¾"
    Speed; 34.72 kts.
    Complement; 130
    Boats; 4 LCP(L) landing craft
    Armament
    three single 5"/50 gun mounts
    two single 40mm AA gun mounts
    five single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion; geared turbines, 26,500shp, two propellers
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