USS Rinehart ( DE - 196 ) USS " Rinehart " ( DE - 196 ) was a built for the United States Navy during World War II . She served in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys . She was named after Clark Franklin Rinehart who was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross posthumously for his actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea . The ship was laid down by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company , Newark , New Jersey , on 21 October 1943 ; launched on 9 January 1944 , sponsored by Mrs . Dorothy Ruth Rinehart ; and commissioned at New York on 12 February 1944 , Lt . Partee W . Crouch in command . Later this ship was commanded by future football coach Woody Hayes . World War II North Atlantic operations . Following shakedown off Bermuda and brief service as a school ship out of Norfolk , Virginia , " Rinehart " commenced her primary work as a convoy escort when she sailed to New York on 8 May 1944 to pick up the New York section of a North Africa - bound convoy . Arriving Bizerte , Tunisia , on 1 June , she steamed for New York nine days later with a return convoy . She made a second voyage from Norfolk to Bizerte and back to New York between 24 July to 7 September . " Rinehart " cleared New York on 14 October 1944 for the first of five convoy escort voyages to ports in Great Britain and France . She sailed from New York to Liverpool , England , and back ( 14 October to 9 November 1944 ) ; from Boston , Massachusetts , to Plymouth , England , to New York ( 2 to 31 December 1944 ) ; from New York to Liverpool and back ( 18 January to 14 February 1945 ) ; from Boston to Le Havre , France , and Southampton , England , and back to New York ( 8 March to 4 April 1945 ) ; and from Boston to Gourock , Scotland , and back to New York ( 24 April to 19 May 1945 ) . During this last voyage , she rescued a man overboard from merchant tanker on 1 May . Transfer to the Pacific Theatre . After an overhaul , " Rinehart " cleared New York with the rest of Escort Division 55 for refresher training at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba . Continuing on to the Pacific , she transited the Panama Canal on 1 July , and , after a stop at San Diego , California , arrived at Pearl Harbor on 21 July . Following training in Hawaiian waters , " Rinehart " sailed from Pearl Harbor on 8 August 1945 as escort for an Eniwetok - bound convoy . She delivered her charges safely at that port on 16 August and was assigned to patrol on the barrier line between the convoy lanes . She also served as ready duty ship and on 12 September recovered LCVP - 3832 which was adrift off the island . End - of - War activity . On 26 September 1945 , " Rinehart " headed for Wake Island where she assumed radio and station ship duty upon her arrival the following day . She was relieved of this duty on 4 October and sailed back to Eniwetok by way of Bikini where she replenished three YMS s stationed there . The escort revisited Bikini during 19 – 21 October for a similar mission , then returned to Wake Island on 24 October 1945 to serve as port director and radio ship . During heavy weather on the 28th and 29th , " Rinehart " barely avoided joining on a coral reef . Her mooring buoys were ripped loose , but skillful maneuvering enabled her to stay clear and aid the merchant ship get off the reef and into safe water to ride out the storm . " Rinehart " put to sea from Wake Island on 1 December 1945 and embarked Navy passengers at Eniwetok Atoll for transportation to Pearl Harbor where she arrived on 15 December 1945 . After acting as weather station ship off Pearl Harbor , she got underway from that port on 2 February for the east coast of the United States . Return to the East Coast . Steaming in company with , she touched at San Pedro , California , transited the Panama Canal on 1 March , and arrived in the Boston Navy Yard on 7 March 1946 . She cleared Boston Harbor with " Thornhill " on 13 April and reported for inactivation at Green Cove Springs , Florida , on 16 April 1946 . Post - War decommissioning . She remained in inactive status until 17 July 1946 when she decommissioned and was assigned to the Florida Group of the U . S . Atlantic Reserve Fleet . " Rinehart " was transferred to the Netherlands under terms of the Military Assistance Program on 1 June 1950 . She was struck from the Navy List on 26 September 1950 . She served in the Royal Netherlands Navy as HNLMS " De Bitter " ( F . 807 ) until retired in December 1967 and sold in February 1968 for scrapping .