USS Davis (DD-937)
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| Displacement: | 4000 tons(full load) |
| Length: | 418' |
| Beam: | 45' |
| Draught: | 21' |
| Propulsion: | Steam Turbine-70,000 h.p(4 - boilers burning DFM) |
| Speed: | 32 kts (+) |
| Range: | Excess of 2,000 n.m. |
| Complement: | 18 Officers 290 Enlisted |
| Armament: | Two 5"54 caliber Gun mounts;ASW Rockets, Homing Torpedoes |
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| Motto: | Vigilantia Pro Pacem |
USS Davis (DD-937), named for Commander George Fleming Davis USN (1911-1945), commanding officer of USS Walke (DD-416), 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 in 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. USS Davis was decommissioned on 31 January 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 in 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.