USS Brown (DD-546)

USS Brown in 1958
History
United States
Name	USS Brown
Namesake	George Brown
Builder	Bethlehem Shipbuilding, San Pedro, California
Laid down	27 June 1942
Launched	21 February 1943
Sponsored by	Mrs. Claude O. Kell
Commissioned	10 July 1943
Decommissioned	1 August 1946
Recommissioned	27 October 1950
Decommissioned	9 February 1962
Stricken	1 September 1975
Identification	DD-546
Fate	Transferred to Hellenic Navy, 27 September 1962
Greece
Name	Navarinon
Acquired	27 September 1962
Stricken	1981
Identification	D63
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Fletcher-class destroyer
Displacement	2,050 tons
Length	376 ft 6 in (114.76 m)
Beam	39 ft 8 in (12.09 m)
Draft	17 ft 9 in (5.41 m)
Propulsion	60,000 shp (45,000 kW); 2 propellers
Speed	35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range	6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	329
Armament	5 × single 5 in (127 mm)/38 guns 5 × twin AA guns 7 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) AA guns 2 × quintuple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 × single depth charge throwers 2 × depth charge racks

USS Brown (DD-546) was a

On 10 November 1943 Brown departed Pearl Harbor in company with Task Force 50 (TF 50) en route to the forward area. During Brown's very active service in the Pacific, she screened carriers during

• the Gilbert Islands invasion (21 November – 6 December 1943);
• Kavieng, New Ireland raids (25 December 1943 – 4 January 1944),
• Marshall Islands raids (29 January – 7 February),
• Truk raid (16–17 February);
• Palau-Yap-Woleai raids (30 March – 2 April);
• assault and capture of Hollandia, New Guinea (21–28 April);
• Truk raid (29 April);
• bombardment of Satawan (30 April);
• Ponape raids (1 May);
• Marcus Island
  raid (19–20 May);
• Wake Island raid (23 May);
• strikes in support of the assault on Saipan (1–26 June);
• Battle of the Philippine Sea, during which she rescued four American pilots (19–20 June),
• bombardment of Iwo Jima (4 July),
• assaults on Guam and on Tinian (12 July – 6 August);
• Yap raids (26–28 July);
• Chichi Jima
  raids (4–5 August);
• raids on Palau,
  Talaud, and Morotai
  ,
• supporting the capture of the Southern Palaus and Ulithi (6–15 September);
• raids against Luzon and the Visayas (21–24 September);
• raids on
  Okinawa, Formosa
  , and Luzon (10–19 October);
• Battle for Leyte Gulf
  (26 October);
• raids on Manila and the Visayas (6 November),
• and raids against northern and central Philippines in support of the seizing of Mindoro Island (15–16 December).

Task Force 88 was caught in a

Brown was recommissioned 27 October 1950. She conducted intensive shakedown operations off the west coast and then reported to Commander, Naval Forces, Far East, in March 1951. From March until September she operated with Task Forces 77 and 95 and participated in the siege of Wonsan Harbor on two occasions. Brown returned to California in October 1951. Her next Western Pacific tour was between July 1952 and January 1953, during which time she operated on the Formosan Patrol. She made four further Far Eastern tours and operated along the West Coast.

Brown was decommissioned 9 February 1962.

Greek service

The ship was transferred to

In 1981, the ship was stricken and scrapped.

Awards

Brown received the Navy Unit Commendation, for services rendered during the Okinawa operation, in addition to 13

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entries can be found here and here.
• navsource.org: USS Brown
• Extensive history of USS Brown