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USS Greene (AVD 13)

Destroyer of the Clemson class


USS Greene in the early 1920's

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassClemson 
PennantAVD 13 
Built byBethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (Squantum, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down3 Jun, 1918 
Launched2 Nov, 1918 
Commissioned9 May, 1919 
End service24 Nov, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned on 17 June 1922
Recommissioned on 28 June 1940
Reclassified as sea plane tender AVD-13 on 2 August 1940
Classified back to destroyer DD-266 on 1 December 1943
Reclassified as high speed transport APD-36 on 1 February 1944
Grounded during a typhoon on the northwest coast of Kutaka, Okinawa on 9 October 1945
Decommissioned on 24 November 1945
Wreck destroyed on 11 February 1946 
Former nameUSS Anthony

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