USS Ebert (DE-768)
{{Short description|United States Navy destroyer escort (1944-46)}}
{{other ships|USS Ebert}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=USS Ebert (DE-768) underway in the North Atlantic on 3 January 1945 (80-G-301384).jpg |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Ship country=United States |Ship flag= {{USN flag|1946}} |Ship name=USS Ebert |Ship namesake= Hilan Ebert |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Tampa Shipbuilding Company, Tampa, Florida |Ship laid down= 1 April 1943 |Ship launched= 11 May 1944 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= 12 July 1944 |Ship decommissioned= 14 June 1946 |Ship struck= 7 March 1951 |Ship honors= |Ship identification=DE-768 |Ship fate=Transferred to Greece, 1 March 1951 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country=Greece |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Greece|naval}} |Ship name=Ierax |Ship namesake= |Ship acquired= 1 March 1951 |Ship commissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship struck= 1991 |Ship honors= |Ship identification=D31 |Ship fate=Sunk as target, July 2002 }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Ship class= {{sclass|Cannon|destroyer escort|1}} |Ship displacement=*{{convert|1240|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} standard
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USS Ebert (DE-768) was a {{sclass|Cannon|destroyer escort}} in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. In 1951, she was transferred to Greece, where she served as Ierax (D31) until 1991. She was finally sunk as a target in 2002.
Namesake
Hilan Ebert was born on 21 March 1903 in Alliance, Ohio. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1926 and served in various billets afloat and ashore until assigned to {{USS|Northampton|CL-26|6}} on 29 April 1942. Lieutenant Commander Ebert was killed on 30 November 1942 when his ship was torpedoed in the Battle of Tassafaronga off Guadalcanal. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
History
=United States Navy (1944-1951)=
Ebert was launched on 11 May 1944 by Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Inc., Tampa, Florida; sponsored by Mrs. Hilan Ebert, widow of Lieutenant Commander Ebert; and commissioned on 12 July 1944.
Ebert guarded the passage of convoys carrying men and supplies vital to victory in Europe, to ports in Great Britain and France, between 6 October 1944 and 14 May 1945, then returned to New York City to prepare for duty in the Pacific.{{citation needed|date=June 2012}}
She sailed on 8 June for Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok, and the Philippines. She escorted convoys carrying occupation troops to Japan, until 30 November when she left Manila for the United States.
=Hellenic Navy (1951-2002)=
{{other ships|Greek ship Ierax}}
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Ebert was placed out of commission in reserve at Green Cove Springs, Florida, on 14 June 1946. Towed to Boston, Massachusetts, in November 1950, Ebert was transferred to Greece on 1 March 1951 under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program.
She served in the Greek Navy as Ierax (D31) (Hawk), and was stricken in 1991. In January 1998, reports emerged that she was laid up in terminal reserve at the port of Souda, in Crete. Ierax was sunk as part of a Naval exercise (combination of Penguin missile and torpedo attack) in July 2002. Ierax now rests on the seabed of the Aegean Sea close to the island of Crete, at a depth of {{convert|950|m|ft|sp=us}}, located at {{coord|35|56.5|N|24|25.1|E}}.
References
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- {{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/e/ebert.html}}
External links
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- {{navsource|06/768|USS Ebert}}
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Category:Cannon-class destroyer escorts of the United States Navy
Category:Ships built in Tampa, Florida
Category:World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States