USS Hull (DD-330), 1921-1931

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USS Hull, a 1190-ton Clemson class destroyer, was built at San Francisco, California. She was commissioned in April 1921 and began nearly a decade of operations that primarily took place along the West Coast from Panama to Alaska. In 1924 and 1927, she transited the Panama Canal to participate in U.S. Fleet exercises in the Caribbean. The 1927 cruise took her up the East Coast to New York before she returned to the Pacific. Hull was decommissioned at the end of March 1930, during a general restructuring of the Fleet's destroyer force. She was scrapped in 1931.

USS Hull was named in honor of Commodore Isaac Hull (1773-1843), a signficant Naval commander during and after the War of 1812.

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