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WELCOME ABOARD The Captain and the Executive Officer, on behalf of the officers and crew of the U.S.S. Hyman, welcome you aboard and extend to you the cordial hand of hospitality. OUR SHIP We're proud of our ship and would like to tell you a few things about her, so that you can better understand and appreciate the stories we like to tell about our wandering home, its travels, and its operations. First of all, the Hyman is a destroyer type: length 376 feet, beam 4l feet, and displacing 2200 tons. On full steam we can shoot through the water at more than 33 knots. Armament includes three twin dual purpose 5 f38 cal. mounts, having a maximum range of over l5,000 yards, two single and two twin 3 f50 Cal. machine-gun mounts, numerous depth charges and hedgehog rockets for.-. use against submarines, and five 3840 lb. torpedoes. We carry a crew of 280 enlisted men and l7 officers, as well as the staff personnel of Destroyer Divi- sion l22, since Hyman is flagship. Other ships in our divjsion are the U.S.S. Beatty lDD756l USS Bristol CDD857l and USS Purd DD734 all wit , . . . -, . . . y f l, ' h Newport, Rhode lsland, as our home port. Capt. Bienvenu and LCDR Kane. woNsAN g SHlP'S HISTORY The Hyman received its name in honor of Lieutenant C der Willford Milton Hyman, USN, who died valiantly command U.S.S. Sims when she was lost to enemy action in the Battle of -t c c x e e Sea, May l942. ' , , - V - P ,I-I Hilfi- The ship was built in Bath, Maine, by the Bath lron Works poration, and was commissioned l6 June, l944, in Charles Naval Shipyeard, Boston, Massachusetts. Upon completion fitting out period and shakedown cruise, Hyman sailed through Panama Cnaal for duty with the Pacific Fleet. Her first assignment was convoy duty between Ulithi and Harbor, but soon she was ordered to a powerful Task Force to. ticipate in the invasion of lwo Jima. Arriving off the island day, the ship moved in close during the first night and c a series of continuous and concentrated bombardments of the i Highlighting this bombardment was the all-night searchlight I , of Mount Suribachi, plus main battery and machine-gun support
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