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USS Rinehart (DE 196)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - W - Z - J

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: American Campaign Medal
Second Row: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Specifications:
Class: Cannon
Type: DET (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, long hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1240 tons (light), 1620 tons (full)
Length: 300' (wl), 306' (oa)
Beam: 36' 10" (extreme)
Draft: 10' 6" (draft limit)
Propulsion: 4 GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 21 kts
Range: 10,800 nm @ 12 knots
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 twin 40mm Mk1 AA, 8 x 20mm Mk 4 AA, 3 x 21" Mk15 TT (3x1), 1 Hedgehog Projector Mk10 (144 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Complement: 15 / 201

Rinehart (DE 196) Building and Operational Data:

21 October 1943: Keel laid by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp., Port Newark, N.J.

09 January 1944: Launched and christened, sponsored by Mrs. Dorothy Ruth Rinehart

12 February 1944: Commissioned at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Lt. Partee W. Crouch, USN, in command

17 July 1946: Decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla. after 2 years and 5 months of service

01 June 1950: Transferred (MDAP) to the Netherlands, renamed HNLMS De Bitter (F.807) (retired by the Dutch Navy 15 December 1967, sold for scrap February 1968)

26 September 1950: Struck from the NVR

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
0619602	94k	10 July 1944: Lower New York Harbor - On this date she was underway from Brooklyn Navy Yard for a full power run, swinging compasses and loading ammo. That afternoon she loaded ammnition at the Naval Weapons Station, Earle, N.J. and that evening she proceeded to sea enroute to Casco Bay, Maine.	David Wright Navsource Archive Manager Destroyer Archive
0619605	72k	08 June 1945: USS *Rinehart* (DE 196) off New York City. (Photo #19-N-84967 and 19-N-84965, Bureau of Ships Collection, U.S. National Archives, from the Naval History and Heritage Command)	Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash.
0619606	78k		Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash.
0619607	39k	circa 1951: as HNLMS *De Bitter* (F.807)	Bob Hurst Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
0619603	35k	Undated: Underway in service of the Royal Netherlands Navy.	John Wolf L/S, RP2 Royal Netherlands Navy (ret.)
0619604	35k	Undated: Underway in service of the Royal Netherlands Navy.	John Wolf L/S, RP2 Royal Netherlands Navy (ret.)

Rinehart History
View the USS Rinehart (DE 196) DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command web site.
View the official War History of USS Rinehart as submitted by the ship at war's end.

Rinehart's Commanding Officers
Thanks to Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves

Dates of Command	Commanding Officers
1.) 12 Feb. 1944 - 18 Apr. 1945	Lcdr. Partee W. Crouch, USN (Comm. CO) (USNA '39) (Bluefield, W.V.)
2.) 18 Apr. 1945 - 28 Sep. 1945	Lcdr. Aubrey Delos Engle, USN (USNA '41) (E. St. Louis, Ill.)
3.) 28 Sep. 1945 - 04 Jun. 1946	Lcdr. Wayne Woodrow Hayes, USNR (OCS '41) (Newcomerstown, Oh.)
4.) 04 Jun. 1946 - 17 Jul. 1946	Lt.(jg) Cooper Grayson Curtice, USNR (Decomm. CO) (Vienna, Va.)

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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Additional Resources

Tin Can Sailors
The U.S. Navy Memorial
Destroyer Escort Sailors Association
The Destroyer Escort Historical Museum
The Destroyer History Foundation
Tin Can Sailors Shipmate Registry - USS Rinehart

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