USS Hunt ( DD - 194 ) USS " Hunt " ( DD - 194 ) was a " Clemson " - class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II . She served in the United States Coast Guard , as USCGD " Hunt " ( CG - 18 ) . She was later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS " Broadway " ( H90 ) . History . The first Navy ship named for 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 , Lieutenant Roswell H . Blair in command . 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 1934 the U . S . Coast Guard had custody of the ship . " Hunt " served as part of the Rum Patrol . After being recommissioned at Philadelphia , " Hunt " departed on 26 January 1940 for Neutrality patrol in the Caribbean Sea . She left Panama Canal 3 April to escort submarine " Searaven " to Cape Canaveral and then engaged in gunnery practice in Cuban waters en route to Norfolk , Virginia arriving 17 April 1940 . The next few months were devoted to maneuvers in Chesapeake Bay and training cruises down the eastern seaboard . As HMS " Broadway " . " Hunt " was one of the 50 overage ships exchanged with the British in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement . She got underway from Newport 3 October 1940 , and reached Halifax , Nova Scotia on 5 October . The following day she embarked 100 British officers and sailors for training . On 8 October she decommissioned from the U . S . Navy and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS " Broadway " ( H90 ) . " Broadway " arrived at Belfast on 24 October 1940 , where she joined the 11th Escort Group , Western Approaches Command , with whom she engaged in escorting numerous convoys . On 9 May , while escorting convoy OB 318 , she was involved , with the destroyer " Bulldog " and the corvette " Aubrietia " , in the capture of German submarine " U - 110 " between Iceland and Greenland . On the previous night , the U - boat had crept in to attack OB 318 , but was prevented from surfacing by the strong destroyer escort . The submarine continued to shadow the Allied ships until early in the afternoon watch when she launched three torpedoes from periscope depth . " Broadway " and her fellow escorts promptly counterattacked and forced her to surface where she surrendered . Unfortunately the prize sank while in tow to port , but not before her captors had recovered documents of great value and importance to the Allies ' cause - namely an intact Naval Enigma machine . " U - 110 " was commanded by Korvettenkapitän Fritz - Julius Lemp who had made the first kill of the war by sinking the liner SS " Athenia " on 3 September 1939 , the day the United Kingdom declared war . Lemp was lost with 14 members of his crew when " U - 110 " sank , but a war correspondent , 4 officers and 28 men were rescued . " Broadway " was modified for trade convoy escort service by removal of three of the original 4 " / 50 caliber gun s and three of the triple torpedo tube mounts to reduce topside weight for additional depth charge stowage and installation of hedgehog . " Broadway " was assigned to Escort Group C - 2 of the Mid - Ocean Escort Force for convoys ON - 119 , SC - 97 , ON - 139 , SC - 108 , ON - 149 , SC - 113 , ON - 179 and HX - 237 during the winter of 1942 - 43 On 12 May 1943 she joined the frigate " Lagan " and aircraft from escort carrier " Biter " in destroying another German submarine , " U - 89 " , which was sunk northeast of the Azores . After refitting at Belfast in September 1943 , " Broadway " became a target ship for aircraft and served as such at Rosyth in Scotland until the war ended in Europe . In May 1945 she left Rosyth for Northern Norway with occupation forces . At Narvik , Norway , she took charge of a convoy of German submarines which was sailing for Trondheim . In the reduction of the British Navy after the war , " Hunt " was scrapped .