USS Abner Read (DD-769) was a planned United States Navy Gearing-class destroyer laid down during World War II but never completed.

The ship was to be the second ship named for Abner Read (1821–1863), a United States Navy officer killed during the American Civil War.

She was assigned the name during construction when the first Abner Read (DD-526), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was sunk by a kamikaze during the Battle of Leyte, 1 November 1944.

[1] Abner Read was laid down by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at San Francisco, California on 21 May 1944.

She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 13 September 1946 and scrapped on the building ways.