Word: hobson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the bridge of the racing, rolling destroyer-minesweeper Hobson, the air craft carrier Wasp was simply a dark bulk 3,000 yards off to the left, against the mid-Atlantic night. Like the destroyer, which was tearing through the rising seas with all hatches battened down, she was operating under simulated war conditions, and was completely blacked out save for a glimmer of light at her truck. The Wasp had planes in the air; when she began a sweeping 120° turn into the wind to pick them up, she came boiling through the darkness at 27 knots...
...combat exercise. At a little after 10 p.m., the Wasp turned into the wind to take her brood back aboard. With a crump of rending metal, the sheer bow of the 27,100-ton carrier crashed into the starboard side of the 1,630-ton destroyer-minesweeper Hobson...
Like the Wasp (the second carrier* and seventh U.S. naval vessel to bear the name), the 37-knot Hobson was a veteran of many a sea battle of World War II. She was racing along off the carrier's port quarter on "plane guard"-ready for rescue work in case a flyer missed his landing and crashed. Under the impact of the collision the Hobson sank almost instantly, with many of her complement of 14 officers and 223 men asleep or helpless below. Amid a glare of searchlights, the carrier's crew began rescue operations. Other destroyers raced...
...hours of searching, only 61 of the Hob son's men, many of them dazed and injured, were found. As the Wasp steamed slowly back toward New York, her bow sliced open along the waterline by the impact, 176 men, including the Hobson's skipper, Commander William J. Tierney, were missing and presumably lost-the biggest peacetime casualty list in modern U.S. naval history...
Blue Coach Howard Hobson will probably start two seniors in his lineup, Captain Ed McHugh at guard and Terry Buchanan at forward. Buchanan was particularly ineffective against the Crimson at New Haven and was soon replaced by sophomore Jim Plecas. McHugh, however, has long been a Crimson nemesis, leading his team's victory over the Crimson in the I.A.B. last year with 20 points and notching 17 last Saturday...