USS Henry W. Tucker (DD-875)

USS "Henry W. Tucker" (DD-875) was a "Gearing"-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Pharmacist’s Mate Third Class Henry W. Tucker (1919–1942) who was killed in action during the battle of the Coral Sea on 7 May 1942 and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

"Henry W. Tucker" was laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 29 May 1944, launched on 8 November 1944 by Mrs. Henry Walton Tucker, the mother of the late Pharmacist’s Mate Third Class Henry W. Tucker, and commissioned on 12 March 1945.

"Henry W. Tucker" operated with the Seventh Fleet in support of United Nations Forces during the Korean War, alternating operations along the west coast and in Hawaiian waters with deployments to the western Pacific with the Seventh Fleet. She underwent an extensive Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) overhaul at the Boston Naval Shipyard between 13 December 1962 and 4 December 1963. "Henry W. Tucker" served as plane guard for carriers on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, participated in Operation Sea Dragon and Operation Market Time, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out naval gunfire support missions during the conflict in Vietnam.

"Henry W. Tucker" was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 3 December 1973, transferred to Brazil and renamed "Marcilio Dias".

After her service with Brazil, she was decommissioned and sunk as a target ship during a torpedo exercise on 19 September 1994.

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