USS Rogers

USS Rogers (DD-876) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for three brothers — Jack Ellis Rogers Jr., Charles Ethbert Rogers, and Edward Keith Rogers — killed in action board USS New Orleans during the Battle of Tassafaronga in the Solomon Islands on 30 November 1942.

Rogers's keel was laid down on 3 June 1944 by Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas. The ship was launched on 20 November 1944, sponsored by the Mother, Mrs. Josie Viola Taylor Rogers, wife of Jack Ellis Rogers, Sr., and commissioned on 26 March 1945, Comdr. C. B. Smiley in command.