USS Underwood (FFG-36), twenty-seventh ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Captain Gordon Waite Underwood (1910–1978).
Ordered from Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME on 27 April 1979 as part of the FY79 program, Underwood was laid down on 30 July 1981, launched on 6 February 1982, and commissioned on 29 January 1983. As of January 2010 she remains active, assigned to Destroyer Squadron 14 and homeported at Mayport, FL.
On 13 January 2010, the Underwood was ordered to assist in the humanitarian relief efforts following the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
USS Underwood is set to be decommissioned during 2013