USS Josephus Daniels (DLG/CG-27) was a Belknap-class destroyer leader / cruiser.

She was launched on 2 December 1963, sponsored by Mrs. Robert M. Woronoff and Mrs. Clyde R. Rich Jr., granddaughters of Josephus Daniels; delivered to the navy on 4 May 1965 and commissioned on 8 May 1965.

She was struck from the register on 21 January 1994 and laid up at James River reserve fleet, Fort Eustis, Virginia to be scrapped.

The 'Joey D' was later dismantled by International Shipbreaking Ltd. of Brownsville, TX, with scrapping completed on 8 November 1999.

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