USS Davis (DD-937)

USS Davis (DD-937)

USS "Davis" (DD-937), named for Commander George Fleming Davis USN (1911-1945), commanding officer of USS "Walke" (DD-723), killed in action at Lingayen Gulf on Luzon in the Philippine Islands on 6 January 1945 and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, was a Forrest Sherman class destroyer of the United States Navy laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Quincy, Massachusetts on 1 February 1955, launched on 28 March 1956 by Mrs. G. F. Davis, widow of Commander Davis and commissioned on 28 February 1957.

Fate

USS "Davis" was decommissioned on 20 December 1982, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 27 July 1990 and sold for scrap to the Fore River Shipyard and Iron Works at Quincy, Massachusetts on 11 December 1992. When the Fore River Shipyard went bankrupt she was resold to N. R. Acquisition Incorporated of New York City by the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court and scrapped by Wilmington Resources of Wilmington in North Carolina.

ee also

*List of United States Navy destroyers

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/d2/davis-iv.htm
*NVR|http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/DD937.htm


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