USS Greene (DD-266)
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| Namesake: | Samuel Greene |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum Victory Yard |
| Laid down: | 3 June 1918 |
| Launched: | 2 November 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 9 May 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 November 1945 |
| Struck: | 5 December 1945 |
| Fate: | Wrecked 9 October 1945; wreck destroyed 11 February 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Clemson-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,215 tons |
| Length: | 314 feet 4 1⁄2 inches (95.822 m) |
| Beam: | 30 feet 11 1⁄2 inches (9.436 m) |
| Draft: | 9 feet 4 inches (2.84 m) |
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| Speed: | 34 knots (63 km/h) |
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| Complement: | 122 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 × 4 in (100 mm) guns, 1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun, 12 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS Greene (DD-266/AVD-13/APD-36) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Samuel Greene.
Greene was launched 2 November 1918 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts; sponsored by Mrs. John Stevens Conover, the namesake's daughter; and commissioned 9 May 1919, Commander R. A. Theobald in command.
Greene sailed from Newport, Rhode Island 5 June 1919 for Brest via Plymouth, England, and returned to New York 27 July. Underway again 18 August, she put in at San Diego, California, 22 December and decommissioned there in March 1920. Remaining in the Reserve Destroyer Force until 10 September 1921, she sailed from San Diego that date for the Puget Sound Navy Yard. Greene returned shortly thereafter to San Francisco, California, arriving 2 December 1921, and decommissioned there 17 June 1922.
Recommissioned 28 June 1940 at San Diego, Greene was towed to San Francisco and was redesignated AVD-13 6 April 1941 following conversion. She sailed 27 April for the Caribbean and conducted training and tended seaplanes off Puerto Rico and Bermuda.
One week after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Greene sailed for Brazil. Until the summer of 1942 she served as seaplane tender at Natal with one call at Rio de Janeiro for repairs in February 1942. She returned to Charleston, South Carolina 18 July 1942. She escorted a convoy from Norfolk, Virginia to Bermuda and operated in the South Atlantic for the next 6 months as a convoy escort, making two voyages to Rio de Janeiro.
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