Ship's name : named after Senator Eugene Hale

Senator Hale was very interested in naval affairs, especially naval appropriations.

Two US Navy vessels were named after Senator Eugene Hale.
The first was a destroyer, DD-133 http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/h1/hale-i.htm.
The second was also a destroyer, DD-642 http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/h1/hale-ii.htm

We checked our biographical and manuscript files and only have a very brief biography on the Senator.

We also checked our publication, US Naval History Sources in the United States, but did not find any collection of Eugene Hale papers. (An online version of US Naval History Sources is available at http://www.history.navy.mil/sources/index.htm although no index is available. Rather, it must be searched through the entire Naval Historical Center website at http://www.history.navy.mil/search/index.html)

We suspect all of the Library of Congress manuscript collections are cataloged in OCLC, but it may be worth checking directly with the Manuscript Division http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/ anyway.

And it may be a long shot, but you might check with the National Archives in Washington, DC. Contact information is below.
Unfortunately, many papers collections simply don't exist, having been broken up and sold at auctions, etc., but we hope that is not the case with Eugene Hale. Contact information for the Archives:
Old Military and Civil Records Branch
National Archives and Records Administration 700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20408
1-866-272-6272
http://www.archives.gov/contact/
inquire@nara.gov