USS Davis (DD-937)

History
United States
Namesake	George Fleming Davis
Ordered	3 February 1954
Builder	Bethlehem Steel, Fore River Shipyard
Laid down	1 February 1955
Launched	28 March 1956
Acquired	28 February 1957
Commissioned	6 March 1957
Decommissioned	20 December 1982
Stricken	27 July 1990
Motto	Vigilantia Pro Pacem
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Forrest Sherman-class destroyer
Displacement	4000 tons(full load)
Length	418' (127.4 m)
Beam	45' (13.7 m)
Draft	21' (6.4 m)
Propulsion	Steam Turbine-70,000 h.p (52,2 MW) (4 - boilers burning DFM)
Speed	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range	Excess of 2,000 n.m. (3,700 km)
Complement	18 Officers 290 Enlisted
Armament	three 5"54 (127 mm/54) caliber Gun mounts; ASW Rockets, Homing Torpedoes

USS Davis (DD-937) 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. The ship was 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. Davis was launched on 28 March 1956 by Mrs. G. F. Davis, widow of Commander Davis, and commissioned on 6 March 1957 at Boston Naval Yard.

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 company 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.

See also[]

• List of United States Navy destroyers

References[]

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.