USS Rinehart (DE 196)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer Escort
Class	Cannon
Pennant	DE 196
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	18 Jan 1942
Laid down	21 Oct 1943
Launched	9 Jan 1944
Commissioned	12 Feb 1944
End service	10 Jul 1946
History	Decommissioned 17 July 1946. Stricken by the U.S.N. 26 September 1950. Transferred to the Netherlands 1 June 1950 being renamed De Bitter. De Bitter was returned to the U.S.N. 15 December 1967 and sold in February 1968 to be broken up for scrap.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt. Partee Wilson Crouch, Jr., USN	12 Feb 1944	18 Apr 1945
2	Aubrey Delos Engle, USN	18 Apr 1945	28 Sep 1945

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