USS Daniel T. Griffin

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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 General Electric 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.