From Wikipedia.
The last entry concerned Buck Beadle of Hart. Michigan, who was on the destroyer USS Hull at Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. Here is a follow-up on that ship.
The USS Hull (DD-350) was a Farragut-class destroyer named after the War of 1812's commander of the USS Constitution in its fight against the HMS Guerriere. It was commissioned in 1935.
At Pearl Harbor, it was tied up next to the tender USS Dobbins (AD-3) undergoing repairs. Destroyers weren't high on the Japanese priority list to attack and the ship came through without being hit. The next day, it went out and escorted the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) into Pearl Harbor.
In the next several months, it screened the aircraft carrier Lexington (CV-2) to the Solomon Islands (Jim Landis' plane was on that ship, another follow-up. The Hull was at Guadalcanal, the Aleutian Islands and other Pacific campaigns until it was sunk by Typhoon Cobra on December 19, 1944. Part of this sinking gave Herman Wouk the story for his book "The Caine Mutiny."
Little Ship, Big Story. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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