USS Henley ( DD - 762 ) USS " Henley " ( DD - 762 ) , an " Allen M . Sumner " - class destroyer , was the 4th ship of the United States Navy to be named " Henley " , was named after Captain Robert Henley ( 5 January 1783 – 7 October 1828 ) ; an officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi - War with France , the War of 1812 and the Second Barbary War . In addition to the 3 destroyers named " USS Henley " ( DD - 39 , DD - 391 , and DD - 762 ) , there was an additional " Henley " , USS John D Henley ( DD - 553 ) which was named after Captain John D . Henley , a brother of Captain Robert Henley . The fourth " Henley " ( DD - 762 ) was launched 8 April 1945 by Bethlehem Steel Co . , San Francisco ; sponsored by Mrs . George S . Wheaton ; and commissioned 8 October 1946 , Commander Dwight L . Moody in command . History . After shakedown in the Pacific , " Henley " headed east , reporting to the Sonar School at Key West 19 February 1947 for a 5 - month tour of duty . She then reported to Norfolk , from which she sailed 28 July for her first Mediterranean cruise , which terminated 1 December at Boston . On her second tour in the Mediterranean , " Henley " patrolled with other U . N . ships in the summer of 1948 as the Israeli - Arab dispute threatened to erupt into war . After a year of tactical training exercises and fleet maneuvers , " Henley " decommissioned at Charleston 15 March 1950 . Less than 6 months later , with the outbreak of war in Korea , " Henley " went back in commission , rejoining the active fleet 23 September . Shakedown over , she sailed July 1951 for another tour with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean . " Henley " was detached from this duty and made a cruise to northern European ports , including a journey up the Seine to Rouen , before returning to Norfolk in February 1952 . In company with Destroyer Division 221 , " Henley " departed Norfolk 25 September 1953 for a world cruise which was to take her 44 , 000 miles in 218 days . During this period , " Henley " sailed through the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal , participated in the filming of " The Bridges of Toko - Ri " off the Korean and Japanese coasts , operated with the 7th Fleet in Asian waters , and returned to the States via the Panama Canal and the Caribbean . Following years fell into a pattern for " Henley " as she alternated Mediterranean cruises with anti - submarine warfare and other tactical exercises off the East Coast and in the Caribbean . In 1959 she joined Task Force 47 for the Inland Seas Cruise to the Great Lakes through the newly completed St . Lawrence Seaway . Nearly 75 , 000 mid - westerners visited this representative of the " salt - water navy " in her 2 - month cruise . During the Cuban Missile Crisis in the fall of 1962 over offensive missiles stationed in Cuba , " Henley " joined the fleet " quarantining " the island . Following this , she then returned to a peacetime pattern of readiness operations . On 1 October 1964 , " Henley " became a Group I , Naval Reserve training ship assigned to the Anti - Submarine Warfare Component of the Naval Reserve . Following overhaul at Newport News , Virginia , and refresher training at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba , she began the first of numerous Naval Reserve training cruises out of Norfolk 1 May 1965 . Manned by a nucleus crew , she cruised along the Atlantic Coast and into the Caribbean during the next 2 years and provided valuable service as an at - sea training platform for hundreds of Naval Reservists . Into mid - 1972 she continued this vital duty both for officers and men of the Naval Reserve and the Nation .