Allied Warships

USS Greene (AVD 13)

Destroyer of the Clemson class

USS Greene in the early 1920's

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	AVD 13
Mod	Sea plane tender
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (Squantum, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	3 Jun 1918
Launched	2 Nov 1918
Commissioned	9 May 1919
End service	24 Nov 1945
History	Decommissioned 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 name	USS Anthony

Commands listed for USS Greene (AVD 13)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Josephus Asa Briggs, USN	28 Jun 1940	28 May 1942
2	Lt.Cdr. Warren Sherman Parr, USN	28 May 1942	27 Aug 1942 (1)
3	T/Lt.Cdr. Louis Joseph Bellis, USN	27 Aug 1942	13 May 1943
4	T/Lt.Cdr. Joseph Seaman Lewis, USN	13 May 1943	4 Jan 1944 (1)
5	George Oscar Scarfe, Jr., USNR	4 Jan 1944	8 May 1945
6	Joseph William Roosevelt, USNR	8 May 1945	23 Nov 1945

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Notable events involving Greene include:

11 May 1943
HMS Upstart (Lt. P.C. Chapman, DSC and Bar, RN) conducted A/S exercises in Lough Foyle with USS Greene (Lt.Cdr. J.S. Lewis, USN), HMS Chanticleer (Lt.Cdr. R.H. Bristowe, DSO, RN), USS Lea (Lt.Cdr. D.I. Thomas, USN) and USS Osmond Ingram (Lt.Cdr. N.J. Sampson, USN).

Upon completion of the exercises Upstart departed Lough Foyle for Holy Loch escorted by HMS Chanticleer. (2)

12 May 1943
HMS H 33 (Lt. J.A. Spender, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with USS Belknap and USS Badger, USS Lea, USS Osmond Ingram and USS Greene. (3)