High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS John Rodgers (DD-574) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship of that name, in honor of three members of the Rodgers family who served in the Navy from the War of 1812 through World War I. Later, John Rodgers served in the Mexican Navy (1968–2001) as BAM Cuitlahuac, becoming the last of the Fletcher-class in active service.