USS Southerland (DD-743), a Gearing-class destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for William Henry Hudson Southerland, an admiral. Southerland was laid down on 27 May 1944 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine and launched on 5 October 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Edmund Richardson, daughter of Rear Admiral Southerland. The destroyer was commissioned on 22 December 1944, Commander Russell C. Williams in command.