USS Rudderow (DE-224) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer escorts, in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1947.

[1] Commissioned Ensign in the Naval Militia of Pennsylvania on 14 July 1916, he was mustered into Federal service on 7 April 1917, and assigned in May to the interned Prinz Eitel Friedrich, later renamed DeKalb.

Relieved from active duty on 25 June 1919, he remained in the Naval Reserve until transferred to the Honorary Retired List on 1 September 1939.

On 3 January 1942, shortly after World War II broke out, while superintendent and commanding officer of the Pennsylvania Nautical School Ship Seneca, Lieutenant Commander Rudderow was recalled to active duty and assigned to the yacht USS Cythera, another World War I veteran being fitted out for coastal patrol work.

She completed her shakedown trials off Bermuda and throughout the summer of 1944 participated in submarine hunter-killer patrols and the escort of convoys along the East Coast of the United States.

A week later she steamed into the Mindanao Sea to assist the torpedoed destroyer Renshaw (DD-499) and escort her to San Pedro Bay.

In May 1957 she was transferred to the San Francisco Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet, where she remained until struck from the Navy List on 1 November 1969.