- 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 atLingayen Gulf onLuzon in thePhilippine Islands on6 January 1945 and posthumously awarded theMedal of Honor , was aForrest Sherman class destroyer of theUnited States Navy laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation atQuincy, Massachusetts on1 February 1955 , launched on28 March 1956 by Mrs. G. F. Davis, widow of Commander Davis and commissioned on28 February 1957 .Fate
USS "Davis" was decommissioned on
20 December 1982 , stricken from theNaval Vessel Register on27 July 1990 and sold for scrap to the Fore River Shipyard and Iron Works at Quincy, Massachusetts on11 December 1992 . When theFore River Shipyard went bankrupt she was resold to N. R. Acquisition Incorporated ofNew York City by the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court and scrapped by Wilmington Resources of Wilmington inNorth Carolina .ee also
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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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