USS Steele (BDE-8/DE-8) was an Evarts-class short-hull destroyer escort in the service of the United States Navy.

He was a member of the Marine Detachment on board USS Lexington and was killed during the Battle of the Coral Sea on 8 May 1942.

Steele sailed from Boston for Bermuda to begin her shakedown cruise on 25 May and returned on 27 June for post-shakedown availability.

After making port calls at the Society and Tonga islands, Steele arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia, on 10 August.

She escorted merchant ships and transports among the New Hebrides, Fiji, and Solomon Islands until 13 December 1943 when she got underway for the west coast of the United States to be repaired.

The DE performed escort and patrol duty in the Marshalls until 7 May, when she sailed for the Gilbert Islands to serve in the destroyer screen at Tarawa.

After a short upkeep period, Steele was assigned to a hunter-killer group centered on Hoggatt Bay.

Steele made a logistics stop at Manus from 9 to 13 October and sallied with the group for the Philippine Islands.

As the fast carriers launched strikes against Leyte, Luzon, and Formosa, the aircraft from Hoggatt Bay protected the refueling operations.