USS Metcalf (DD-595) was a destroyer of the Fletcher class in the United States Navy. She was named for James Metcalf, a sailor of the First Barbary War. Older papers sometimes render his surname as Medcalf.
Metcalf entered the schooner Enterprise at Malta as a seaman on 16 May 1803. On 16 February 1804 he was one of eighty-four men chosen from that schooner for Lieutenant Stephen Decatur’s move into Tripoli Harbor, the effort to burn the frigate Philadelphia after Tripolitan pirates had taken her. On 19 September 1804 he was rated boatswain’s mate, and the following day he went to the brig Syren. His service also included the frigates Essex and Constitution.
The hull was laid down at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Washington, on 10 August 1943. She was launched on 25 September 1944, with Mrs. Harold C. Pound as sponsor, and commissioned on 18 November 1944. David Louis Martineau took command the day she entered service.
After shakedown off San Diego she joined the Pacific Fleet. On 19 February 1945 she left Bremerton for the Carolines, steaming by way of Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii. Metcalf survived the war. The hull was sold for scrap on 6 June 1972.