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Rinehart

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ClassCannon class
TypeDestroyer escort (DE)
HullDE-196
BuilderFederal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Port Newark, New Jersey
Launched1944-01-09
Commissioned1944-02-12
FateAfloat. Her commissioned service ended on 17 July 1946. Another navy received her later. She went to the breakers later.
Armament (class)Diesel-electric destroyer escort. Three 3-inch guns, one funnel, and one torpedo mount.
Command

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Rinehart
U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo 19-N-84967. USS Rinehart (DE-196) underway off New York City (USA), 8 June 1945 (19-N-84967).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Rinehart, hull DE-196, belonged to the Cannon class of destroyer escorts. Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, at Port Newark, New Jersey, laid her down on 21 October 1943 and launched her on 9 January 1944. The Navy commissioned her on 12 February 1944. Her first commanding officer was Lieutenant Partee W. Crouch.

Her Pacific duty took her to Eniwetok.

Her commissioned service ended on 17 July 1946. Another navy received her later. She went to the breakers later.

The pictures on this page are the originals.