Allied Warships

USS Davis (DD 395)

Destroyer of the Somers class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Somers
Pennant	DD 395
Built by	Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	28 Jul 1936
Launched	30 Jul 1938
Commissioned	9 Nov 1938
End service	19 Oct 1945
History	Decommissioned 19 October 1945. Stricken 1 November 1945. Sold 24 November 1947 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Davis (DD 395)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Harley Francis Cope, USN	1 Jul 1939	4 Apr 1941
2	Cdr. Charles Clifford Hartman, USN	4 Apr 1941	17 Dec 1941
3	Lt.Cdr. Martin Rowland Peterson, USN	17 Dec 1941	21 Feb 1943
4	T/Cdr. William Archer Dunn, USN	21 Feb 1943	1 Nov 1944 (1)
5	T/Lt.Cdr. Thomas Donald Cunningham, USN	1 Nov 1944	1 Oct 1945
6	William Bruce Tichenor, USN	1 Oct 1945	19 Oct 1945 (1)

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Notable events involving Davis include:

19 May 1942
USS R-12 (Lt. E.E. Shelby, USN) participated in A/S exercises of St. Thomas together with USS Davis (Lt.Cdr. M.R. Peterson, USN).

20 May 1942
USS R-12 (Lt. E.E. Shelby, USN) participated in A/S exercises of St. Thomas together with USS Davis (Lt.Cdr. M.R. Peterson, USN) and USS Somers (Lt.Cdr. A.C. Wood, USN).

23 May 1942
USS R-12 (Lt. E.E. Shelby, USN) participated in A/S exercises of St. Thomas together with USS Davis (Lt.Cdr. M.R. Peterson, USN) and USS Partridge (Lt.Cdr. S.E. Kenney, USN).

21 May 1945
From 21 to 23 May 1945, HMS Sheffield (Capt. J.W.M. Eaton, DSO, DSC, RN) conducted trials and exercises in the Gulf of Maine. She was escorted by the destroyers USS Somers (T/Lt.Cdr. E.M. Luby, USN) and USS Davis (T/Lt.Cdr. T.D. Cunningham, USN). (2)