USS Eberle

History
United States
Name	USS Eberle
Namesake	Edward Walter Eberle
Builder	Bath Iron Works
Laid down	12 April 1939
Launched	14 September 1940
Commissioned	4 December 1940
Decommissioned	3 June 1946
Stricken	24 January 1951
Identification	DD-430
Fate	transferred to Greece, 22 January 1951
Greece
Name	Niki
Acquired	22 January 1951
Stricken	1972
Fate	Scrapped in 1972
General characteristics
Class and type	Gleaves-class destroyer
Displacement	1,630 tons
Length	348 ft 3 in (106.15 m)
Beam	36 ft 1 in (11.00 m)
Draft	11 ft 10 in (3.61 m)
Propulsion	50,000 shp (37,000 kW); 4 boilers 2 propellers
Speed	37.4 kn (69.3 km/h; 43.0 mph)
Range	6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	16 officers, 260 enlisted
Armament	5 × 5 in (127 mm) DP guns, 6 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns, 6 × 20 mm AA guns, 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Eberle (DD-430) was a Gleaves-class destroyer of the United States Navy.^[1] The ship is named for Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, who commanded the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets and was Chief of Naval Operations from 1923 to 1927. The destroyer entered service in 1940 and spent the majority of her career in the Atlantic Ocean. Placed in reserve following the war, the ship was transferred to the Hellenic Navy in 1951. Renamed Niki, the destroyer remained in service until 1972 when she was scrapped.