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Photo # 19-N-84965:  USS Rinehart off New York City, 8 June 1945.

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USS Rinehart (DE-196), 1944-1950

USS Rinehart, a 1240-ton Cannon class (DET-type) escort ship built at Newark, New Jersey, was commissioned in February 1944. Between May and September 1944 she made two round-trip convoy escort voyages between New York and Tunisia, then shifted to the north Atlantic, where she completed five more round-trips between U.S. seaports and ones in the United Kingdom and France. This work was completed in May 1945, at which point Rinehart was overhauled and sent to the Pacific.

The fighting with Japan ended in mid-August, just before she completed an escort mission from Hawaii to the Marshall Islands. Rinehart spent most of the rest of the year on local activities in the central Pacific, then served as a weather ship in Hawaiian waters. Returning to the U.S. West Coast in February 1946, she soon transited the Panama Canal en route to the Atlantic Coast. Inactivation preparations at Green Cove Springs, Florida, began in mid-April, and she was placed out of commission there in July 1946. At the beginning of June 1950 USS Rinehart was transferred to the Netherlands. Renamed De Bitter, she served in the Dutch Navy until 1967, and was then returned to the U.S. and sold for scrapping.

USS Rinehart was named in honor of Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Clark F. Rinehart, USNR, (1910-1942), who was killed in action while serving with USS Lexington's Fighting Squadron Two during the Battle of the Coral Sea.

This page features the only views we have concerning USS Rinehart (DE-196)


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Photo #: 19-N-84965

USS Rinehart
(DE-196)

Off New York City, 8 June 1945.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 605 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 
Photo #: 19-N-84967

USS Rinehart
(DE-196)

Off New York City, 8 June 1945.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 605 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Rinehart (DE-196). The following list features these images:

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: 80-G-224105
    USS Rinehart (DE-196) in the New York Harbor area, 11 April 1944. Photographed from an aircraft based at Naval Air Station New York.
    Starboard bow high aerial view. Rinehart is painted in the horizontal two-tone Camouflage Measure 22, and has triple torpedo tubes amidships.

  • Photo #: 80-G-224108
    As 80-G-224105, but port broadside high aerial view.


  • Photo #: 80-G-324944
    USS Rinehart (DE-196) in the New York Harbor area, 8 June 1945. Photographed from an aircraft based at Naval Air Station New York.
    Port bow aerial view. Rinehart is painted in the monotone dark paint of Camouflage Measure 21. Her torpedo tubes have been replaced by 40mm twin gun mounts and a short mainmast has been fitted.
    Note: This view is similar to Photo # 19-N-84965 (among the photos shown on this page), but does not appear to be identical.

  • Photo #: 80-G-324945
    As 80-G-324944, but port broadside (somewhat toward the bow) aerial view. The ship appears to be going astern at very low speed.

  • Photo #: 80-G-324946
    As 80-G-324944, but port quarter aerial view.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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