USS Furse (DD-882)
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USS Furse (DD-882), named for Lieutenant John Houseal Furse USN (1886-1907), was a Gearing class destroyer laid down by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas on 23 September 1944, launched on 9 March 1945 by Miss Eugenia A. Furse, sister of Lieutenant Furse and commissioned on 10 July 1945.
Furse served as plane guard during the atomic weapons tests in the Marshall Islands in 1946 then alternated operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean with the 2nd Fleet with deployments to the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet. USS Furse was decommissioned on 31 August 1972, transferred to Spain and rename Gravina, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 2 June 1975 and scrapped in 1991.