A graduate of the Naval Academy in 1908, Captain Davis was from June, 1940, to June, 1944, the manager of the Portsmouth Navy Yard where 77 submarines were completed during the war. Since June, 1944, he has served as Supervisor of Shipbuilding and Inspector of Ordnance at Quincy, Massachusetts, in general charge of government inspection at the Bethlehem Steel Company’s shipyards there and at Hingham, and at numerous other ship and boat yards in southeastern New England.
