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Hobson (DMS-26)

Call sign:
Nan - Xray - Sugar - Yoke

ex-DD-464

Sunk 26 April 1952

Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 14 November 1940 at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, SC; Launched 8 September 1941; Commissioned USS Hobson (DD-464), 22 January 1942; Reclassified and converted to Highspeed Minesweeper, DMS-26, 15 November 1944; Lost by collison with Wasp (CV 18), 26 April 1952; Struck from the Navy Register 14 May 1952.

Specifications: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,575 t.(fl); Length 348' 3"; Beam 31' 4" ; Draft 13' 9"; Speed 37.4 kts.; Complement 272; Armament three 5"/38 dual purpose and two quad 40mm mounts; Propulsion four Babcock and Wilcox boilers, two 50,000shp Charleston Navy Yard geared turbines, Falk double reduction gear, two shafts.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Hobson (DD 464)
	75k	1 September 1942 Hobson escorting the aircraft carrier Ranger (CV 4) in the Atlantic , still carried one 1.1" quadruple anti-aircraft gun mount atop the after superstructure and had only four single 20-mm anti-aircraft guns. U.S. Navy photo from the June 2006 edition of U.S. Naval Institutes Navay History magazine	Joe Radigan
	75k	2 April 1943 Off Boston Navy Yard National Archives photo BS 42487	Joe Radigan
	75k	18 April 1944 Hobson carried a taller mainmast to support the aerial for rhe HF/DF (high frequency direction finder) system for detecting U-boat radio transmissions. The number of 2-mm guns had been increased to seven, with one added before the pilothouse and two on the after corners of the bridge wings. Two twin 40-mm anti-aircraft guns and their associated Mk 51 directors had replaced the 1.1" guns. U.S. Navy photo from the June 2006 edition of U.S. Naval Institutes Naval History magazine	Joe Radigan
Hobson (DMS 26)
	75k	20 December 1944 Hobson departing Charleston, SC on post-conversion trials. She carried a cable reel, winch, and sweep gear davits on the fantail, flanked by the depth charge racks above the propeller guards. In addition to her mine countermeasures gear, the ship had also received new air-search radar and height-finging adjunct radar for her Mk 37 main battery fire-control system. U.S. Navy photo from the June 2006 edition of U.S. Naval Institutes Naval History magazine	Joe Radigan
	75k	c. 1950 In her final configuration Hobson is seen with one quadruple 40-mm gun mount portside atop the after deckhouse and two 20-mm Mk 24 mounts between Mount 52 and the bridge superstructure. The gap in the main deck bulwark allowed the towed acoustic hammer array to be swung outboard by the boom, seen stowed at a 45° angle between the stacks. U.S. Navy photo from the June 2006 edition of U.S. Naval Institutes Naval History magazine	Joe Radigan
	65k	c. 1952 Associated Press Wire Photo	Joe Radigan
	144k	.	©John Robert Barrett

View the Hobson (DMS-26)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource Destroyer Pages, USS Hobson (DD-464)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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