USS Eugene A. Greene (DD 711)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Gearing
Pennant	DD 711
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	7 Aug 1942
Laid down	17 Apr 1944
Launched	18 Mar 1945
Commissioned	8 Jun 1945
End service	31 Aug 1972
History	Reclassified as DDR-711 on 18 July 1952. Reverted back to DD-711 on 15 March 1963. Decommissioned 31 August 1972 and loaned to Spain being renamed Churruca (D61). Stricken 2 June 1975. Sold to Spain 17 May 1978. Churruca was stricken by Spain 15 September 1989. Used for target practice and sunk by the Spanish Navy on 12 December 1991. See also this website (offsite link).

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. William Veazie Pratt, 2nd, USN	8 Jun 1945	6 Sep 1947

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