{| {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag= |Ship name=McFarland' |Ship namesake=John McFarland |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=New York Shipbuilding |Ship laid down=31 July 1918 |Ship launched=30 March 1920 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=30 September 1920 |Ship decommissioned=8 November 1945 |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship struck=19 December 1945 |Ship reinstated= |Ship honors= |Ship fate=Sold for scrap, 29 October 1946 |Ship notes= }} |} USS McFarland (DD-237/AVD-14) was a in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient John McFarland.McFarland was laid down on 31 July 1918 and launched on 30 March 1920 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation; sponsored by Miss Louisa Hughes; and commissioned on 30 September 1920. Service historyMcFarland, having served a month with the Atlantic Fleet, departed for European waters on 30 November 1920. For the next two months she operated in the English Channel, sailing for Gibraltar on 31 January 1921. On 9 March she arrived at Split for a four-month tour with the Adriatic Detachment. In July she continued eastward, and at Constantinople, on 31 July, joined ships of the Turkish Waters Detachment. Returning to the United States only once (8 July to 22 October 1922), McFarland remained in the Black Sea and eastern Mediterranean area until spring 1923. During that period she performed quasi-diplomatic and humanitarian roles necessitated by the aftermath of World War I. She cruised regularly to Black Sea and Anatolian ports, distributing American relief supplies to Russian, Greek, and Turkish refugees and providing transportation, mail, and communications facilities.McFarland returned to New York and on 15 September 1923 joined the Scouting Fleet at Newport, Rhode Island. With only two interruptions, she operated along the East coast and in the Caribbean for the next 17 years. The first interruption came with a cruise to Hawaii for the 1925 fleet problem involving an attack on Oahu; the second, a year out of commission, in reserve, at Philadelphia, 1931. On 2 August 1940, McFarland, undergoing conversion, was redesignated AVD-14, seaplane tender (destroyer). On 5 October she was recommissioned in full and assigned to the Pacific Fleet. 1923 collisionMcFarland was heavily damaged during the early morning of 19 September 1923 after being rammed on the port side forward of her bridge by the battleship during night maneuvers off of the Cape Cod Canal. The training exercise was being undertaken