High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Manley (DD-940), named for Captain John Manley (c.1733–1793), was a Forrest Sherman class destroyer built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation at Bath in Maine. The keel was laid down on February 10, 1955. Manley was commissioned on February 1, 1957 and sponsored by Mrs. Arleigh A. Burke, wife of then Chief of Naval Operations, the principal speaker at the commissioning ceremonies, and with Commander William H. Rowen in command.