Allied Warships

USS Hobby (DD 610)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Bristol
Pennant	DD 610
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered	16 Dec 1940
Laid down	30 Jun 1941
Launched	4 Jun 1942
Commissioned	18 Nov 1942
End service	1 Feb 1946
History	Decommissioned 1 February 1946. Stricken 1 July 1971. Sunk as a target off the coast of South Carolina 28 June 1972.

Commands listed for USS Hobby (DD 610)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Ernest Blake, USN	18 Nov 1942	24 Oct 1943
2	T/Cdr. George Washington Pressey, USN	24 Oct 1943	29 Jan 1945
3	Charles Onea Akers, USN	29 Jan 1945	1 Feb 1946

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Notable events involving Hobby include:

31 May 1943
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) departed Gravesend Bay for Casco Bay, Maine. She was escorted by USS Hobby (Cdr. E. Blake, USN), USS Kalk (Cdr. C.T. Singleton, Jr., USN) and USS Gillespie (Cdr. C.C. Clement, USN).

2 Jan 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) departed Hampton Roads, Virginia for the Panama Canal Zone. Iowa is proceed to the Pacific.

Passage was made together with sister ship USS New Jersey (Capt. C.F. Holden, USN). The battleships were escorted by ComDesDiv 38; USS Welles (Cdr. D.M. Coffee, USN), USS Gillespie (Cdr. J.S. Fahy, USN), USS Hobby (Cdr. G.W. Pressy, USN) and USS Kalk (Lt.Cdr. H.D. Fuller, USN).

For the daily positions of USS Iowa during this passage see the map below.