 was named in his honor.She was laid down on May 1, 1944, at Orange, Texas, by the Consolidated Steel Corp.; launched on June 27, 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Jim Alice Perkins, the sister of the late 1st "Lt. Cockrell"; and commissioned on August 7, 1944, at her builder's yard, Lt. Comdr.Merrill M. Sanford, USNR, in command.