I saved a magazine called "Sea Classics, Special Destroyer Issue", Published January 1969 with a story titled "Mother Hubbard DD 748".  Lots of pictures including the Maddox, Preston, and Perkins.

The article starts out....  "Too her crew she's the Mother Hubbard, but to the Navy she's a six-barreled gun-ship that is the backbone of the fleet..." It's a story about sea trials and our gun shooting capability/tests off San Clemente Island. 1968, before our cruise to Nam under the command of Captain Roy McCoy.  This article is about Capt. Roy McCoy.  President Johnson attended the event.

USS Hubbard was my home for all of my four year enlisted time.  Ken Baxter STG 2 and I were the only ones left in ASW DIV when "USS Hubbard" met her demise.  The last day were strange with only Ken and me in a small compartment (the size of a camp trailer) that use to hold as many as 15 sonar and torpedo men.

I took this "Sea Command" magazine with me as I left the Hubbard in October 1969, plus my helmet, and a great foul weather jacket/coat I was issued when we were sent to Korea.

That's it.  The mighty Hubbard was impotent after the cruise of 1969.  Not good, as the propulsion system was not dependable even for weekend cruises with the Navel reserves anymore.  Yes, Hubbard did do some weekend cruises.  Maybe four or five with a skeleton crew of Hubbard sailers.  Then came a time when we could not get underway.  Reserves were disappointed tied up to the pier, their whole weekend of Navel training.

Sad ending to a once very powerful ship.  The USS Hubbard was able to shoot down attacking Kamikazes in WWII at Okinawa, was the "fastest guns in West Pac, Vietnam."  I do miss her.  Dammit, she got old and died, just like a family member.  I miss her.