USS Daniel T. Griffin

History
United States
Name	USS Daniel T. Griffin
Namesake	Daniel T. Griffin
Ordered	1942
Builder	Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
Laid down	7 September 1942
Launched	25 February 1943
Reclassified	APD-38, 23 October 1944
Commissioned	9 June 1943
Decommissioned	30 May 1946
Stricken	1 December 1966
Honors and; awards	1 battle star (World War II)
Fate	Transferred to Chile, 15 November 1966
History
Chile
Name	Virgilio Uribe (APD-29)
Acquired	15 November 1966
Decommissioned	30 May 1995
Fate	Scrapped, 1995
General characteristics
Class and type	Buckley-class destroyer escort
Displacement	1,400 long tons (1,422 t) light; 1,740 long tons (1,768 t) standard;
Length	306 ft (93 m)
Beam	37 ft (11 m)
Draft	9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) standard; 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) full load;
Propulsion	2 × boilers; turbo-electric drive; 12,000 shp (8.9 MW); 2 × solid manganese-bronze 3,600 lb (1,600 kg) 3-bladed propellers, 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) diameter, 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) pitch; 2 × rudders; 359 tons fuel oil;
Speed	23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph)
Range	3,700 nmi (6,900 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph); 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph);
Complement	15 officers, 198 men
Armament	3 × 3"/50 caliber guns; 1 × quad 1.1"/75 caliber gun; 8 × single 20 mm guns; 1 × triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar; 8 × K-gun depth charge projectors; 2 × depth charge tracks;

USS Daniel T. Griffin (DE-54/APD-38), a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ordnanceman Daniel T. Griffin (1911–1941), who was killed in action during the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian Islands.

Namesake

Daniel Thornburg Griffin was born on 25 March 1911 in

Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay. He was first buried in Hawaii in December 1941 and was reinterred in Colorado Springs in October 1947.^[1]

Construction and commissioning

Daniel T. Griffin was

Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts, sponsored by Mrs. D. T. Griffin, and commissioned

on 9 June.

Service history

After a voyage escorting a

high speed transport

. She was reclassified APD-38 on 23 October 1944.

Sailing from

Kerama Retto

.

Daniel T. Griffin served on local escort duty at

Kure, Japan, landing her passengers from 6 to 11 October. Returning to Manila on 16 October she redeployed troops in the Philippines until 2 December when she sailed for the United States. She called briefly at San Diego, arrived at Norfolk on 11 January 1946 and Green Cove Springs, Florida

, on 4 March. She was placed out of commission in reserve there on 30 May 1946.

Virgilio Uribe (APD-29)

Daniel T. Griffin was transferred to Chile on 15 November 1966, and renamed Luis Virgilio Uribe (APD-29). She was decommissioned and broken up for scrap in 1995.