USS HARRY E. HUBBARD DD-748
Hubbard crew members served with pride in World War II,
Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War Era

   

UP COMING DD748 Reunion


 

Reservation and Hotel Information

New Phone Number

843-747-1900

Ask for Staci or Lorin  Monday - Friday

8:00 - 5:00

 USS Harry E. Hubbard 2015 Reunion

 More information is up now!  See the March 2015 Newsletter for more details.  Find it by clicking on the Newsletter link. 

 

Make Plans to Attend 2015 Reunion  -- Charleston, S.C. May 6-10 2015

The USS Harry E. Hubbard (DD-748) 2015 annual reunion will be held in Charleston, S.C. on May 6, 7, 8 and 9 2015.  Charleston is a city rich in Revolutionary War, French and Indian Wars and Civil War history.  It was one of the thirteen original states but also the first to secede from the Union when the Civil War began with the first shots being fired in its harbor.  We will learn about all these happenings as we go on the tours that are scheduled.  Since there is SO much to see, we have two tours, one viewing the city from the harbor and a bus tour to see it all a little closer.  The bus tour will stop at Patriots Point where lunch will be served in the CPO Mess of the USS Yorktown CV-10 followed by a ship tour and memorial service aboard  USS Laffey DD-724, which is also a Gearing class destroyer.  The submarine USS Clamagore SS-343 may also be toured.

Be sure and make any hotel and plane reservations early as there is a university graduation that weekend at The Citadel and Mother’s Day is the Sunday after the reunion.  The number for hotel reservations is 1-888-747-1900.  State that you are with the Hubbard reunion, indicate type of room, check in and check out dates, etc.  Reservation cut-off date is April 6.  Requests after that date will be booked if space is available.  As usual the quoted rate will apply three days before and three days after the reunion dates.  Since there is so much to see and do and so little time, you are encouraged to come early and stay late.

Here is how the days unfold.

Wednesday May 6

Check in at the Charleston Plaza Hotel, 4770 Goer Drive, Charleston SC 29406.  It is just off Interstate 25 at the Montague Avenue exit.  Check in time is 3 p.m. and check out is 12 noon.  If you arrive earlier than 3 p.m., you will be placed in your room if it is available.  Bags may be stored until your room is ready.  Your rate is $109 per night with breakfast coupons for two guests per room.  If you are arriving by plane, the courtesy van for the hotel will pick you up.  There is a courtesy phone in the baggage claim area.  The number is 888-747-1900. 

The Hospitality Room is on your immediate left as you enter the front entrance of the hotel.  Our banner will be hanging there, so you cannot miss it.  We will be set up by 2 p.m. or so to pass out packets and goody bags.  Your tour tickets, breakfast coupons and banquet tickets will be in your envelope.  Like last year we ask you to bring your favorite name badge.  We will try to make you one if you are new or otherwise don’t have one.  Name badges are NOT REQUIRED for anything but bear in mind that many of your shipmates may be as bad remembering names as you are.  The room will have coffee, packaged snacks and other beverages.  Tours are of course optional. 

The hotel offers scheduled shuttle service to the Historic District for $10 per person round trip; the times are 10 a.m., 2 p.m., 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.  Make your arrangements with them but otherwise the hotel shuttle has complimentary service within a two-mile radius.  This includes Tanger Outlet Mall and many places to eat.  The Northwood Mall is several miles away but easily accessible by car.

Thursday May 7

The daily breakfast buffet is from 6:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.  The buffet is the usual buffet fare and it is adequate but you can also order other items.  The hospitality room will be open by 7 a.m. with coffee available.  The restaurant provides yogurts, cereals, pastries, fruit etc. for those who want a light meal.  The restaurant is only twenty steps away, across from the hospitality room, so you can get those items and bring them back to our hospitality room to enjoy if you wish.  Packets and goody bags will be handed out to those who checked in late on Wednesday or early on Thursday.

Tour #1:  8:30 a.m.: Charleston Convention Group Services Coach will begin loading at the hotel.  8:45 departs with narration by tour guide.  9:30  Charleston Harbor Tour.  We will board the Charles Towne Princess and enjoy a breathtaking tour of Charleston Harbor.  The tour covers 75 points of interest.  We will hear a live narration by our Captain on the facts and folklore about Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie and Fort Johnson.  We will see the bridges that span the Cooper River and pass the ships of Patriots Point and beautiful waterfront homes.  11:15 Free time in the Old City Market, lunch on your own.  1:15 p.m. Depart the market for the hotel.  1:45 Arrive at the hotel.  For those adventurous souls who may want to stay longer downtown, arrangements can be made for the hotel shuttle (for a fee of course) or you can share a cab or ask a shipmate with a car to pick you up.  The trolley in that area is for the most part free to get you to other attractions.  If you choose to free lance, you MUST let the tour folks know so they won’t be holding up the bus looking for you.  The cost of Tour #1 is $54 per person.  During the tour the hospitality room back at the hotel will remain open if folks are not going and are willing to keep watch over snacks, beverages, silent auction and ship store items.  Late arrivals can pick up their packets when the room is open.

Friday May 8

Breakfast buffet opens at 6:30 a.m.  Hospitality room opens at 7 a.m. with coffee.  Packets will be handed out to any late arrivals.

Tour #2: 9:15 a.m.  CCGS Coach bus arrives.  9:30 Bus with tour guide departs for Historic Charleston Overview tour.  We will see Charleston’s beautiful old historic district.  View the lovely homes along The Battery, 18th century Rainbow Row, magnificent public buildings and churches and other points of interest that we didn’t see from the harbor tour by boat.  The guide of course will tell us all about the history and some of Charleston’s more “colorful” citizens.  11:30 Bus arrives at Patriots Point.  11:45  Lunch in the CPO Mess aboard the USS Yorktown.  12:20 p.m.  Tour the ships of Patriots Point.  2:30 Memorial Service aboard the USS Laffey.  3:00 End of Memorial Service, prepare to depart for hotel.  3:30 Arrive at hotel.  Cost of Tour #2 is $66 per person.  We tried to coordinate this tour with the Memorial Service to try to accommodate all.  If you want to go to the Memorial Service but not go on the tour, you can make other arrangements to get to the USS Laffey in time for the Memorial Service.  

Back in the hospitality room – or still there if you never left – have a few frosty beverages with your shipmates.  Dinner is on your own.

Saturday May 9

Breakfast buffet opens at 6:30 a.m. and hospitality room at 7 a.m. with coffee.  Your day is free for the most part.  Silent auction closes at the beginning of the business meeting at 3 p.m.  Monies will be collected and items distributed after the meeting.  Hospitality room closes at 5 p.m.  Cash bar opens at 6 p.m. in the banquet room.  Everyone who is registered for the reunion at $65 is included for the banquet.   The menu is “Duet of Chicken Marsala and Sirloin of Beef.”  This consists of grilled breast of chicken sautéed with Marsala wine and wild mushrooms, paired with a petite sirloin of beef with rosemary demi glaze, fresh garden salad, rice/potato, seasonal vegetables and desert.  Entertainment had not been determined as of the date of this newsletter.  The hospitality room may reopen after the banquet.

Sunday May 10

Farewell to all after breakfast.  Don’t forget to call mom or grandmom to wish her a Happy Mother’s Day.  Have a safe trip home.  As this is being written the 2016 reunion plan is uncertain, hopefully resolved at the business meeting Saturday.

Registration Form

The registration form below asks for your name and the name of your guest(s), address and other contact info.  Everyone pays the registration fee on a per person basis.  The hotel offered us a per person fee to keep the hospitality room stocked with “dry snacks” such as chips, nuts and pretzels, coffee service twice a day, ice for our coolers and ice and a scoop for our mixed drinks, all paper products, decorations with a patriotic theme along with the banquet meal which is more generous with both chicken and beef and desert.  What they are offering takes a lot of the burden off of the reunion hosts.  All is taken care of except our “cold adult” beverages and coolers to put them in.  We felt it was reasonable for all we get.  At some reunions we have paid $15 for a registration fee to a reunion planner and received very little in return.  So, remember what the $65 includes.  And as always your generous donations are welcome as well as anything you want to share in the way of food and drink in the hospitality room.