Ships
- USS Haddock (SS-231) Commanding officer from 5 March 1943 · Relieved on 1 December 1943
Roy Milton Davenport graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933, 145th in a class of 435. One account gives his birth as 18 June 1909 in Kansas City, Kansas. Hall of Valor prints 17 December 1911.
Before Haddock (SS-231) he served in Silversides. He relieved Arthur Howard Taylor on 5 March 1943 as a temporary lieutenant commander and kept the boat until 1 December. The fourth patrol sank Arima Maru north of Palau on 3 April and ended the next day after depth charges damaged her. The fifth sank Saipan Maru on 21 July. The sixth damaged Sansei Maru, Notoro, and Shinyubari Maru off Truk. The seventh damaged Hoyo Maru. Three of his Navy Crosses belong to those patrols.
He later commissioned Trepang and received two more Navy Crosses in her. Five Navy Crosses in all. He is recorded as the only sailor of the war awarded five. He retired on 1 November 1959 as a rear admiral. Wikipedia and uboat.net date his death 24 December 1987 at Laguna Hills, California. Hall of Valor prints 25 December 1986.