USS Brown (DD-546) was a of the United States Navy, named for George Brown, a seaman on the crew of during the raid that destroyed the captured in Tripoli harbor during the First Barbary War. Entering service in 1943 during World War II, the ship saw active service until 1962 when she was decommissioned and sold to Greece. Renamed Navarinon, the destroyer was active until 1981 when she was sold for scrap. Construction and career Brown was launched on 21 February 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Co. San Pedro, California, sponsored by Mrs. Claude O. Kell, wife of Captain Kell. The ship was commissioned on 10 July 1943. On 10 November 1943 Brown departed Pearl Harbor in company with Task Force 50 (TF 50) en route to the forward area. During Browns very active service in the Pacific, she screened carriers during the Gilbert Islands invasion (21 November – 6 December 1943); Kavieng, New Ireland raids (25 December 1943 – 4 January 1944), Marshall Islands raids (29 January – 7 February), Truk raid (16–17 February); Palau-Yap-Woleai raids (30 March – 2 April); assault and capture of Hollandia, New Guinea (21–28 April); Truk raid (29 April); bombardment of Satawan (30 April); Ponape raids (1 May); Marcus Island raid (19–20 May); Wake Island raid (23 May); strikes in support of the assault on Saipan (1–26 June); Battle of the Philippine Sea, during which she rescued four American pilots (19–20 June), bombardment of Iwo Jima (4 July), assaults on Guam and on Tinian (12 July – 6 August); Yap raids (26–28 July); Chichi Jima raids (4–5 August); raids on Palau, Mindanao, Talaud, and Morotai, supporting the capture of the Southern Palaus and Ulithi (6–15 September); raids against Luzon and the Visayas (21–24 September); raids on Okinawa, Formosa, and Luzon (10–19 October); Battle for Leyte Gulf (26 October); raids on Manila and the Visayas (6 November), and raids against northern and central Philippines in support of the seizing of Mindoro Island (15–16 December). Task Force 88 was caught in a typhoon (17–18 December), and strikes against Luzon were canceled in order to search for survivors of three missing destroyers. On 21 December Brown recovered 18 survivors of the destroyer and six survivors of the destroyer . Brown then proceeded to Ulithi and received orders to return to Seattle, Washington, for overhaul. Repairs completed on 1 March 1945, she was ready for sea. After a brief