HMS Broadway
USS ''Hunt'' (DD-194) was a ''Clemson''-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She also served in the United States Coast Guard, as USCGD ''Hunt'' (CG-18). She was later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS ''Broadway'' (H90). As USS ''Hunt''/USCGD ''Hunt'' The first Navy ship named after Secretary of the Navy William H. Hunt (1823–1884), ''Hunt'' was launched by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, 14 February 1920; sponsored by Miss Virginia Livingston Hunt; and commissioned 30 September 1920. After shakedown, ''Hunt'' participated in training and readiness exercises with the Atlantic Fleet and conducted torpedo trials on the range out of Newport, Rhode Island. She shifted her base of operations to Charleston, South Carolina, 3 December 1920. Sailing from Charleston Harbor 29 May 1922, she entered the Philadelphia Navy Yard 6 June and decommissioned there 11 August 1922. From 13 September 1930 to 28 May 19 ...
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USS Hunt (DD-194) At New York City, Circa In 1920 (NH 76377)
USS ''Hunt'' may refer to: *, a , commissioned in 1919 and decommissioned in 1922. She served in the United States Coast Guard from 1930 to 1934. She was recommissioned in 1940, transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS ''Broadway'', served in World War II and scrapped in 1945 *, a , commissioned in 1943, served in World War II and decommissioned in 1963 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunt United States Navy ship names ...
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Newport News, Virginia
Newport News () is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the 5th most populous city in Virginia and 140th most populous city in the United States. Newport News is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is at the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the northern shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe's Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river's mouth at Newport News Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads. The area now known as Newport News was once a part of Warwick County. Warwick County was one of the eight original shires of Virginia, formed by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of King Charles I in 1634. In 1881, fifteen years of rapid development began under the leadership of Collis P. Huntington, whose new Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from Richmond opene ...
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