USS Bigelow (DD-942)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 6 July 1955 |
| Launched: | 2 February 1957 |
| Commissioned: | 8 November 1957 |
| Decommissioned: | 5 November 1982 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap to the Fore River Shipyard and Iron Works at Quincy in Massachusetts on 11 December 1992 |
| Struck: | 1 June 1990 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,800 tons standard.
4,050 tons full load. |
| Length: | 407 feet waterline, 418 feet overall. |
| Beam: | 45 feet. |
| Draught: | 22 feet. |
| Propulsion: | 4 x 1,200 psi Foster-Wheeler boilers, General Electric steam turbines; 70,000 shp; 2 x shafts. |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots. |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots. |
| Complement: | 15 officers, 218 enlisted. |
| Armament: | 3 x 5-inch 54 calibre dual purpose Mk 42 guns; 4 x 3-inch 50 calibre Mark 33 anti-aircraft guns; 2 x mark 10/11 Hedgehogs; 6 x 12.75-inch Mark 32 torpedo tubes. |
| Motto: | Concorditer Pugnamus |
The USS Bigelow (DD-942) was a Forrest Sherman class destroyer built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine. The ship was named for Watertender First Class Elmer Charles Bigelow (1920-1945), who was killed in action while serving on board the USS Fletcher during action against enemy Japanese forces off Corregidor in the Philippines on February 14, 1945. Bigelow was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. The ship was launched by Mrs. Verna B. Perry, mother of Elmer C. Bigelow.
When the Fore River Shipyard went bankrupt she was resold to N. R. Acquisition Incorporated of New York City by the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court and scrapped by Wilmington Resources of Wilmington, North Carolina.