USS Phelps (DD-360) was a World War II-era Porter-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy.

In February and March 1942, she served as part of the destroyer screen for Task Force 11, including the carrier USS Lexington, in an attack in the Huon Gulf off Lae and in an attack on Salamaua, New Guinea, over the Owen Stanley mountain range from the Gulf of Papua, 10 March 1942.

Phelps emerged from the battle with no casualties, but when the Lexington was seriously damaged, she helped to prevent enemy capture of the carrier by administering the coup de grâce and finished her off firing five torpedoes.

[1][2][3] In June 1942 she protected the American carriers that dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Midway.

Following duty at Saipan, she steamed via the Panama Canal to Charleston, South Carolina, for armament alterations, arriving 2 August.