The second USS Sanders (DE-40) was an Evarts class destroyer escort constructed for the United States Navy during World War II.

Appointed Ensign on 3 November 1941, he died on Arizona during the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.

Following patrol and escort duties in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands from November–March 1945, she guarded a logistics support group, supplying fast carrier task forces in the western Pacific, from April–June.

Struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 8 January 1946, she was delivered, on 8 May 1947, to the National Metal and Steel Corp., Terminal Island, California, and scrapped in 1948.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.