Jean Hubbard Goldberg, daughter of Cmdr. and Mrs. Hubbard, provided the photos of her father (on the opening page
                                                    of the Hubbard site and on the biography page) and the two Bethlehem Shipyard photos of the launching of DD-748.
                                                    Thank you Mrs. Goldberg for these photos.  They are invaluable to those of us who served on the Hubbard.

Jean Hubbard (checked outfit).
 (Actor Charles Laughton, center foreground attended the launching)

 
  
 

The photos below were taken from the New York Daily News of Saturday, March 25, 1944. Special thanks to Walter Adams of New Jersey for taking the time to see we had possession of these two newspaper photos of the Hubbard's launching. Mr. Adams found the photos in papers his father-in-law, a shipyard worker, had saved.

Captions for the photos are copied from the newspaper page exactly as printed.

DESTROYERS
Yard Turns Out No. 76

                                                                    BINGO!  Jean Hubbard, 16, christens the destroyer Hubbard, named after her father who lost his life
                                                                    when his destroyer, the USS Meredith, was sunk off Guadalcanal.  This is the 76th destroyer built at
                                                                    Bethlehem's Staten Island yard since the start of the war.

                                                                FAST WORK.  Less than a minute after USS Hubbard (background) hit the water, keel of a new
                                                                destroyer has been placed in Hubbard's ways.  This is No. 77.