USS Hovey (DD-208/DMS-11) was a in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the only ship named for Ensign Charles Hovey (1885–1911). Construction and commissioning Hovey was launched 26 April 1919 by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia; sponsored by Mrs. Louise F. Kautz, sister of Ensign Hovey; and commissioned 2 October 1919. She was one of only a few Clemson class destroyers armed with four twin Mk 14 4-inch guns. These were removed in 1940. Service history 1919-1940 After shakedown off the coast of Florida and in the Caribbean, Hovey sailed from Newport, Rhode Island 19 December 1919 in company with for the Azores and Brest, France, for duty as station ship. She sailed from Dalmatia, Italy on 10 July 1920 for the Adriatic Sea to deliver important papers and claims. Arriving Constantinople on 12 July she later visited various Russian ports as station ship until 17 December when she sailed for Port Said, Egypt, and duty with the Asiatic Fleet in the Philippines. Hovey remained on the Asiatic station until she returned to San Francisco, California 2 October 1922, decommissioning at San Diego on 1 February 1923. Hovey recommissioned on 20 February 1930 at San Diego, California. After shakedown out of San Diego and Mare Island she served principally as training ship for reservists until 9 April 1934 when she transited the Panama Canal, arriving at New York on 31 May. After training and fleet exercises out of New England and off the Florida coast, Hovey returned to San Diego on 9 November. After overhaul at Mare Island, she resumed her operations along the United States West Coast with additional exercises and fleet problems in the Canal Zone and Hawaiian waters. George Thomas Sullivan and Francis Henry Sullivan, two of the five Sullivan Brothers served aboard Hovey. World War II Hovey converted to a destroyer minesweeper and was reclassified DMS-11 on 19 November 1940. After intensive training she sailed on 4 February 1941 for duty at Pearl Harbor. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941 Hovey was steaming in company with Chandler as antisubmarine screen for the cruiser , engaged in gunnery practice some off Pearl Harbor. The minesweeper immediately took up patrol and convoy duty around Pearl Harbor until 20 May when she escorted a 20-ship convoy to San Francisco, arriving on 31 May. Hovey returned to Pearl Harbor in mid-June and sailed