21-05-2025
Guided missile destroyer named after Korean War hero spotted off Gourock
A UNITED States Navy vessel named in honour of American war hero has been spotted in the Firth of Clyde.
USS Thomas Hudner's roles have involved anti-aircraft, anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, as well as strike operations.
(Image: Roy Elliott) The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer was launched in April 2017, having been built at Bath Iron Works in Maine.
Several members of the Greenock Telegraph Camera Club captured the vessel off Gourock earlier today.
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She is named after US naval aviator Thomas Hudner, who received the Medal of Honor for his efforts to save the life of Jesse L Brown during the Korean War in 1950.
Both men were on patrol near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea when Brown's aircraft was struck by ground fire.
Hudner, who was later promoted to captain in 1965, deliberately crashed his own plane on a snowy mountain in a bid to help him, but Brown succumbed to his injuries.
