# USS Greiner

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Greiner on 15 August 1943 History United States Name USS Greiner (DE-37) Builder Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington Laid down 7 September 1942 Launched 20 May 1943 as BDE-37 Commissioned 18 August 1943 as USS Greiner (DE-37) Decommissioned 19 November 1945 Stricken 5 December 1945 Fate Sold for scrap on 10 February 1946 General characteristics Class & type Evarts class destroyer escort Displacement 1,140 (standard), 1,430 tons (full) Length 283 ft 6 in (86.41 m) (waterline), 289 ft 5 in (88.21 m) (overall)) Beam 35 ft 2 in (10.72 m) Draft 11 ft 0 in (3.35 m) (max) Propulsion 4 General Motors Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive 6,000 shp 2 screws Speed 19 kn (35 km/h) Range 4,150 nm Complement 15 officers, 183 enlisted Armament 3 × 3 in (76 mm) cal Mk 22 dual purpose guns (1×3), 4 × 1.1"/75 caliber guns (1×4), 9 × Oerlikon 20 mm Mk 4 AA cannons, 1 × Hedgehog Projector Mk 10 (144 rounds), 8 × Mk 6 depth charge projectors, 2 × Mk 9 depth charge tracks

**USS *Greiner* (DE-37)** was an [*Evarts*-class](/source/Evarts-class_destroyer_escort) [destroyer escort](/source/Destroyer_escort) constructed for the [United States Navy](/source/United_States_Navy) during [World War II](/source/World_War_II). She was promptly sent off into the [Pacific Ocean](/source/Pacific_Ocean) to protect [convoys](/source/Convoy) and other ships from [Japanese](/source/Empire_of_Japan) [submarines](/source/Submarines) and fighter [aircraft](/source/Aircraft). She performed dangerous work in numerous battle areas, and was awarded three [battle stars](/source/Battle_star).

She was originally intended for [Great Britain](/source/Great_Britain) under [lend-lease](/source/Lend-lease), was launched as **BDE-37** on 20 May 1943 by the [Puget Sound Navy Yard](/source/Puget_Sound_Navy_Yard), [Bremerton, Washington](/source/Bremerton%2C_Washington) and commissioned on 18 August 1943.

## Namesake

Kenneth Frederick Greiner was born on 27 April 1910 in [Hibbing, Minnesota](/source/Hibbing%2C_Minnesota). He enlisted as a Seaman, Second Class on 28 September 1935. He became an Aviation Cadet in 1936, underwent flight training, and was honorably discharged on 7 April 1936. [Lieutenant (junior grade)](/source/Lieutenant_(junior_grade)) Greiner was appointed to the [United States Naval Reserve](/source/United_States_Naval_Reserve) on 29 March 1941, and after attending an aeronautical engineering course at the [University of Minnesota](/source/University_of_Minnesota) reported to [Naval Air Station, Dutch Harbor](/source/Dutch_Harbor_Naval_Operating_Base_and_Fort_Mears%2C_U.S._Army), [Alaska](/source/Alaska) on 1 October 1941. He was killed in action there on 4 June 1942 during the [Japanese](/source/Empire_of_Japan) [Battle of Dutch Harbor](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Dutch_Hardor&action=edit&redlink=1).

## Service history

Following [shakedown](/source/Shakedown_cruise) and training exercise along the [California](/source/California)-[Washington](/source/Washington_(U.S._state)) coast, *Greiner* sailed for [Pearl Harbor](/source/Pearl_Harbor), reaching there on 31 October 1943. A series of training and patrol operations kept her in the Hawaiian area until 23 December, when she sailed for recently won [Tarawa](/source/Tarawa) as [flagship](/source/Flagship) of Escort Squadron 28 (EscSquad 28). *Greiner* spent virtually a year in the [Gilbert Islands](/source/Gilbert_Islands)-[Marshall Islands](/source/Marshall_Islands) area, as the great American island offensive swept westward toward Japan. The ship performed a variety of tasks, including the most important job of escorting transport vessels to the assault areas. She rescued 13 men from a downed [PBM Mariner](/source/PBM_Mariner) on 26 January 1944, and shelled [Kusaie](/source/Kusaie) in the [Caroline Islands](/source/Caroline_Islands), in reply to a salvo from Japanese [batteries](/source/Artillery_battery), on 1 June.

*Greiner* spent 3 months at Pearl Harbor for repairs and operations from July–October, and after [antisubmarine](/source/Antisubmarine) exercises in Hawaiian waters spent December patrolling around [Wotje](/source/Wotje), [Mili](/source/Mili_Atoll), [Jaluit](/source/Jaluit), and [Maloelap](/source/Maloelap), "leapfrogged" earlier in the war. She spent the remainder of the war in the Gilberts and Marshalls plane-guarding and screening escort carrier forces, except for a short voyage to [Okinawa](/source/Okinawa_Island) 29 June-3 July 1945.

*Greiner* steamed back to the [United States](/source/United_States) from [Kerama Retto](/source/Kerama_Retto) on 3 July, and arrived [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco), California on 28 July.

She decommissioned at [Oakland, California](/source/Oakland%2C_California) on 19 November 1945 and was stricken from the [Naval Vessel Register](/source/Naval_Vessel_Register) on 5 December. The ship was subsequently sold to J. G. Berkwit & Co. on 10 February 1945, and resold in 1947.

## Awards

Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) American Campaign Medal Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (with three service stars) World War II Victory Medal

## References

*This article incorporates text from the [public domain](/source/Public_domain)*[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships](/source/Dictionary_of_American_Naval_Fighting_Ships)*. The entry can be found [here](https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/g/greiner.html).*

## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [USS Greiner (DE-37)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:USS_Greiner_(DE-37)).

- [Photo gallery](http://www.navsource.net/archives/06/037.htm) of USS *Greiner* at NavSource Naval History

v t e Evarts-class destroyer escorts United States Navy Completed Evarts Wyffels Griswold Steele Carlson Bebas Crouter Brennan Doherty Austin Edgar G. Chase Edward C. Daly Gilmore Burden R. Hastings LeHardy Harold C. Thomas Wileman Charles R. Greer Whitman Wintle Dempsey Duffy Emery Stadtfeld Martin Sederstrom Fleming Tisdale Eisele Fair Manlove Greiner Wyman Lovering Sanders Brackett Reynolds Mitchell Donaldson Andres Decker Dobler Doneff Engstrom Seid Smartt Walter S. Brown William C. Miller Cabana Dionne Canfield Deede Elden Cloues Lake Lyman Crowley Rall Halloran Connolly Finnegan O'Toole John J. Powers Mason John M. Bermingham Cancelled Register / Creamer Ely Delbert W. Halsey Keppler Lloyd Thomas William C. Lawe Willard Keith DE-315 (Unnamed) Royal Navy Part of Captain class Completed Bayntun Bazely Berry Blackwood Burges Capel Drury Cooke Dacres Domett Foley Gardiner Garlies Goodall Goodson Gore Gould Grindall Hoste Inglis Inman Keats Kempthorne Kingsmill Lawford Lawson Pasley Loring Louis Manners Moorsom Mounsey Republic of China Navy Tai Kang (ex-Wyffels) Tai Ping (ex-Decker) Preceded by: None Followed by: Buckley class List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy List of frigates of the Royal Navy

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