USS Varian, a 1400-ton Buckley class escort ship, was built at Orange, Texas. Commissioned in February 1944, she escorted Atlantic convoys during March-November 1944, and was then assigned to "hunter-killer" duty. On 16 January 1945, Varian and the other ships of her group sank the German submarine U-248. They repeated the feat on 24 April, when they located, forced to the surface and sank with gunfire the U-546, which had earlier sunk USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136). When Germany surrendered in early May, Varian boarded and escorted U-805 to the U.S. Later in that month, she moved to Miami, Florida, to train newly-commissioned officers, a job completed in early September. After brief service at New London, Connecticut, she steamed south to Green Cove Springs, Florida, in November 1945 and decommissioned there in March 1946. Varian remained in the Reserve Fleet until December 1972, when she was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. She was sold for scrapping in January 1974.