USS Ingersoll (DD-652) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She honored Admiral Royal R. Ingersoll, an Atlantic Fleet chief of staff in the early twentieth century, and his grandson, Lieutenant Royal Rodney Ingersoll II.
The younger Ingersoll was born in Manila, in the Philippines, on 17 December 1913, the son of Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll. He finished at the Naval Academy with the class of 1934 and then served in the battleship California and the destroyer Cassin. In 1941 he reported to the carrier Hornet while that ship was still fitting out. He was killed aboard Hornet in 1942 when a crippled F4F Wildcat from Yorktown came in for an emergency landing with its guns still firing. Four enlisted men died in the same burst, and twenty other sailors were wounded.
Ingersoll was launched on 28 June 1943. Alice Jean Ingersoll, granddaughter of the admiral, and the lieutenant's widow shared the sponsorship. The destroyer was commissioned on 31 August 1943, with A. Veasy as her captain from that day.
September and October 1943 were spent working up off Bermuda. She then returned to Boston, and on 10 November Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, the lieutenant's father and commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, embarked for a review of the fleet. On 29 November she sailed to join the Pacific Fleet, called at the Panama Canal and San Diego, and reached Pearl Harbor on 21 December. She remained with the Pacific Fleet and was still in service when the fighting ended.
Ingersoll survived the war. With Japan surrendered in mid-August 1945, she helped in the occupation and on 2 September lay in Tokyo Bay while the surrender was signed aboard the battleship Missouri. She stayed on to assist in closing Japanese bases, left for home on 5 December, and by way of San Diego and the Canal Zone reached Boston on 17 January 1946. On 4 April 1946 she shifted to Charleston, South Carolina. She left active service on 19 July 1946 and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.
Charleston brought her back into commission on 4 May 1951. She worked the Atlantic coast and the Caribbean, then on 26 August 1952 sailed to the Mediterranean and joined the Sixth Fleet for duty in that sea. On 19 May 1974 the ship was sunk as a target.