USS Stevens (DD-86)

USS Stevens (DD-86)

USS Stevens (DD–86) was a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I. She was the first ship named for Thomas Holdup Stevens.

She was laid down at Quincy, Massachusetts, on 20 September 1917 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation, launched on 13 January 1918, sponsored by Miss Marie Christie Stevens, and commissioned at Boston on 24 May 1918, Commander Rufus F. Zogbaum, Jr., in command.