USS Doherty (DE-14) was an Evarts class destroyer escort constructed for the United States Navy during World War II.

Assigned to Bombing Squadron 6 on board USS Enterprise, Ensign Doherty was reported missing in action 1 February 1942 during the Marshall Islands Raid.

He posthumously received a special letter of commendation from the Secretary of the Navy for his devotion to duty and disregard of his own safety in accomplishing his mission in addition to the Distinguished Flying Cross.

She sailed from San Francisco, California on 15 September for duty in Alaskan waters where she escorted merchant ships and occasionally served as plane guard for United States Army Air Forces bomber strikes over the Kuriles.

Leaving San Diego on 23 November, Doherty operated as a training vessel in submarine exercises at Pearl Harbor from 2 December 1944 – 5 February 1945.